A former police officer who labored to show Jimmy Savile a decade in the past is now working to deliver down one other “very vital” and “untouchable” intercourse offender. Mark Williams-Thomas revealed that the shamed tv host and radio persona was a horrific paedophile in his award-winning documentary, The Different Facet of Jimmy Savile.
The documentary shook the leisure trade, with the 5 ladies who spoke of struggling sexual abuse on the late DJ's fingers adopted by many extra following its broadcast. The revelations prompted the Met Police to launch Operation Yewtree, which led to the arrests of 19 folks and eventual imprisonment of seven of them.
The Every day Star experiences that retired detective and youngster safety skilled Williams-Thomas has claimed that he has the same bombshell about one other high-profile individual. Chatting with the i, he stated: "There are nonetheless folks on the market who're untouchable.
"There's one very vital one that I've carried out every thing to try to get prosecuted as a result of he's clearly a toddler intercourse offender. To this point the CPS will not prosecute. The police and I've tried actually arduous to get there.
"He'll die in the end after which the floodgates will open in the identical manner they did with Savile. That is not proper. However justice takes many various varieties.
"The reality is not any broadcaster would have carried out a programme about Savile when he was alive - we stay in a society the place there are some folks you'll be able to't tackle and that is actually unhappy."
Williams-Thomas didn't give any particulars away about who this "vital individual" was. Nonetheless he hinted that a method through which most of these instances could possibly be made much less dangerous for prosecutors can be if victims gave up their proper to anonymity.
He defined: "I've seen the worth of lifting anonymity for victims to return ahead. It is one of many causes the CPS did not have proof to prosecute Savile when he was alive.
"The media performs a significant function in getting victims to return ahead by publicising names, however they've to contemplate the influence on the accused as a result of there isn't any extra abhorrent crime than youngster intercourse abuse."
The CPS has been approached for remark.
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