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Mark Williams-Thomas | |
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| Born | Mark Alan Williams-Thomas 9 January 1970 Billericay, Essex, England |
| Education | Birmingham City University |
| Occupation | Investigative reporter |
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Mark Alan Williams-Thomas (born 9 January 1970)[1][2] is an English investigative journalist, sexual abuse victim advocate, and former police officer. He is a regular reporter on This Morning and Channel 4 News, as well as the ITV series Exposure and the ITV and Netflix crime series The Investigator: A British Crime Story.[3][4]
As a TV presenter, Thomas presented the documentary which exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile in The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, a television documentary he presented in 2012 as part of the Exposure series, which received numerous awards and led to the Operation Yewtree police investigation that resulted in the convictions of Rolf Harris and Max Clifford.[5] He also investigated several other high-profile cases, including the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the PPE Medpro scandal surrounding Michelle Mone.
- ^ "Check Company". Check Company. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ Halliday, Josh (24 February 2013). "Mark Williams-Thomas: I ran the Savile film like a criminal investigation". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ "The Investigator: A British Crime Story is Simon Cowell's answer to 'Making a Murderer'". Independent.co.uk. 28 June 2016.
- ^ "Police to review murder of Carole Packman after ITV's The Investigator".
- ^ Keogh, Kat (12 January 2013). "The Brum lecturer who unmasked twisted Jimmy Savile". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 21 September 2013.