should ask him whether he had any involvement in the Milly Dowler case.

It's not a open field for questions you have to write your question and drop it in the box before 'The Show" begins thus being able to swerve the sticky ones plenty of skid Marks

Milly Dowler police officer removed over leak complaint

"This related to the inappropriate disclosure of information about aspects of the investigation to a retired police officer friend," a force spokesman said.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-14266147

What is it called ?
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
The best way for a wrongun to camouflage is to be right up front, right out there, look at me I'm so good, a pillar of society.
Someone who follows Dani Minogue and Sabrina the Teenage Witch all very suspect all in plain sight.

'M' wrote:
It's not a open field for questions you have to write your question and drop it in the box before 'The Show" begins thus being able to swerve the sticky ones plenty of skid Marks
Perhaps someone could submit an easy written question but ask a hard one, unless it's set up in such a way as to prevent that.

'md' wrote:
Milly Dowler police officer removed over leak complaint

"This related to the inappropriate disclosure of information about aspects of the investigation to a retired police officer friend," a force spokesman said.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-14266147
"Surrey Police said the detective constable was "removed from working on the Operation Ruby [investigation into the murder of Milly Dowler] team in 2002 following concern raised by a colleague about the conduct of the officer"."

Looks as if that couldn't have been MWT, as he had apparently left the police by 2002 (Wikipedia). This seems to be confirmed by an article from April 2002 where he's criticising the police investigation into the Milly Dowler case. It says he left the police "18 months ago" and wasn't involved in the investigation: Police 'don't seem to have a clue' in hunt for Milly ("A FORMER detective with Surrey Police, the force leading the hunt for 13-year-old Amanda Dowler, says officers "don't seem to have a clue" what has happened to her. Mark Williams-Thomas, who retired from the force 18 months ago as one of its leading paedophile specialists, said that while he was not part of the investigation, he was worried by its lack of success.")

md, silly me, I didn't notice you'd bolded "a retired police officer friend" before posting that. MWT clearly could have been the person leaked to as opposed to being the leaker.

That Telegraph article from 2002 does suggest he had been receiving insider information:

"I heard recently that they had taken away a computer from her home, but they seem to have done that only recently, while it should have been one of the first things they did."
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1390033/...-hunt-for-Milly.html

Yes I think a written question like "Are you still interested in opening or being involved in old cases?" would get called and he would be delighted to answer it except when the Dowler connection got added to it before he answered!

Mind you he does read this Forum every few minutes so is now aware there may be trick questions. Poor old sod, I feel quite sorry for him, knowing what I know. I just hope the Karma I've sent him doesn't result in a Max Clifford type ending.

Jo wrote:

That Telegraph article from 2002 does suggest he had been receiving insider information:

Unless I'm mistaken, some form of confirmation of this was shown a letter published in the Sunday Telegraph the following week (14 April 2002):

An ex-policeman is not the best source

I am writing to reassure your readers that the fears of former Det Con Mark Williams [sic] are unfounded ("Police don't seem to have a clue to hunt for Milly", News, April 7). Surrey Police reacted very quickly to the disappearance of Amanda Dowler. We have invested significant resources in the investigation and, as you reported, on any one day we have more than 100 officers working on the case.

No two missing person cases are the same. Each case is dealt with differently depending on the information available and I would recommend caution regarding information given to the media from people not working on the case - particularly people who no longer work for the police.

(Det Chief Supt) Craig Denholm

Head of CID, Surrey Police

Guildford, Surrey

'Paedophile specialist'

JK2006 wrote:
Mind you he does read this Forum every few minutes so is now aware there may be trick questions. Poor old sod, I feel quite sorry for him, knowing what I know. I just hope the Karma I've sent him doesn't result in a Max Clifford type ending.

He might not mind answering any questions, if he thinks he has done nothing wrong, which sounds likely.

Every few minutes?

md wrote:
Jo wrote:

That Telegraph article from 2002 does suggest he had been receiving insider information:

Unless I'm mistaken, some form of confirmation of this was shown a letter published in the Sunday Telegraph the following week (14 April 2002):

An ex-policeman is not the best source

I am writing to reassure your readers that the fears of former Det Con Mark Williams [sic] are unfounded ("Police don't seem to have a clue to hunt for Milly", News, April 7). Surrey Police reacted very quickly to the disappearance of Amanda Dowler. We have invested significant resources in the investigation and, as you reported, on any one day we have more than 100 officers working on the case.

No two missing person cases are the same. Each case is dealt with differently depending on the information available and I would recommend caution regarding information given to the media from people not working on the case - particularly people who no longer work for the police.

(Det Chief Supt) Craig Denholm

Head of CID, Surrey Police

Guildford, Surrey
Very interesting!

md wrote:


a retired police officer fiend"


Fixed that for you.

'M' wrote:
'Paedophile specialist'

How dare you, he was a LEADING paedophile specialist!

My suggested question is as follows:

What, quite frankly, in the fuck is a leading paedophile specialist?

An article from The Independent (14 Oct 2011) mentions that in early April 2002 a detective who disclosed confidential information to a friend ("not a journalist") outside the force was taken off the case.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/excl...g-shame-2370387.html

md wrote:
An article from The Independent (14 Oct 2011) mentions that in early April 2002 a detective who disclosed confidential information to a friend ("not a journalist") outside the force was taken off the case.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/excl...g-shame-2370387.html
That's interesting. MWT presumably wasn't a journalist at that time, as he was a director of Gumfighters UK Limited between September 2001 and October 2002 (source).

But jo he could still be the Go-Between and this inspired him to start his Paedophile hunting one thing leads to another.
I bet it's a big story in there with all the behind the scenes passing info.