1. Mark Williams-Thomas 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.
25 Facts About Mark Williams-Thomas
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Mark Williams-Thomas investigated several other high-profile cases, including the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the PPE Medpro scandal surrounding Michelle Mone.
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Mark Williams-Thomas was a policeman, and family liaison officer with Surrey Police from 1989 to 2000 becoming a detective constable for only a year before leaving due to unspecified circumstances.
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Mark Williams-Thomas worked on an investigation into child abuse by Jonathan King, leading to King's successful conviction.
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Between 2001 and 2002, Williams-Thomas was the marketing manager and a director of GumFighters, a "national chewing gum removal specialist".
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Mark Williams-Thomas were hired by various councils to clean their streets.
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In 2003, Williams-Thomas was charged with blackmailing a funeral home director, after alleging that there were multiple bodies buried in unmarked graves.
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In 2005, Mark Williams-Thomas set up WT Associates, an independent child protection consultancy firm.
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From 2003, due to his past in the police force, Mark Williams-Thomas began script advising for various television crime dramas which included BBC series Waking The Dead, BBC series Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Channel 5 series Murder Prevention, ITV series Identity and BBC series The Silence.
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On 9 August 2012, ITV News broadcast an exclusive interview Mark Williams-Thomas undertook with Stuart Hazell, who was the last person to see missing 12-year-old schoolgirl Tia Sharp.
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Mark Williams-Thomas was later charged and on 14 May 2013 was jailed after changing his plea.
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Mark Williams-Thomas began investigating the Jimmy Savile case in late 2011, after being informed that Savile was investigated by Surrey police amid the 2007 Jersey child abuse investigation.
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Mark Williams-Thomas presented the follow-up documentary The Jimmy Savile Investigation later that year.
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In 2013, Mark Williams-Thomas won two Royal Television Society awards and the London Press Awards Scoop of the Year for the film.
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Also that year, Mark Williams-Thomas presented an ITV program called On the Run.
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In 2014, Mark Williams-Thomas covered the verdict of Oscar Pistorius and was the only British journalist to meet with Pistorius during his trial, writing an exclusive report for UK national newspaper Daily Mirror.
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In 2015, Mark Williams-Thomas investigated the unsolved murder of BBC presenter Jill Dando.
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Mark Williams-Thomas was the reporter for ITV's crime series The Investigator: A British Crime Story, produced by Simon Cowell's Syco.
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In 2019 Mark Williams-Thomas started investigating for a new crime series on the unsolved murder of teenage mum Nicola Payne.
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Mark Williams-Thomas was on her way to her parents' home.
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In September 2020 following the arrest of Charles and Doris Clark on suspicion of the murder of their 23 years old son Steven, who disappeared in December 1992, Mark Williams-Thomas was given exclusive access to follow the family for a TV documentary while they were under police investigation.
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Mark Williams-Thomas criticised the casting of the character's race from white to Asian.
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Mark Williams-Thomas was criticised for his comments about the character's race.
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In December 2023, Mark Williams-Thomas released a YouTube documentary, The Interview: Baroness Mone and the PPE Scandal, purportedly to investigate the government's controversial "VIP Lane" at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two experts who appeared in the documentary said they were "duped" by Mark Williams-Thomas into appearing in the documentary.