Williams-Thomas Gives the Game Away

A recent blog post by Moor Larkin quoting from Mark Williams-Thomas's book and showing that Jimmy Savile had originally not featured in MWT's famous "list" of presumed celebrity sex offenders and that the aborted BBC investigation into JS had originally intended to focus on police failures rather than on JS's alleged crimes, something that came to be turned upside down.

See also the interesting comment by Amanda underneath revealing her thoughts on the post and her experience of just how warped police thinking was at the time.

Have to say that this quote from MWT's book is something else:

"I'm glad that Jimmy Savile's name will be recorded in the history books as that of a serial paedophile, a predatory abuser of children, and not that of an entertainer and DJ. I'm proud of the part I had to play in making that so. I make no bones about this. Whatever else Jimmy Savile did in his life, whatever he achieved for himself and others, he's not worth remembering as anything other than what he was: a sex offender".

Schadenfreude probably doesn't cover the sentiments there. It oozes malicious glee in another person's destruction. What a foul and poisonous thing to say. How would MWT like that last sentence to be turned round and directed at him? "Whatever else Mark Williams-Thomas did in his life, whatever he achieved for himself and others, he's not worth remembering as anything other than what he was: a foul peddler of rumour and lies; a smearer and trasher of other people's lives".

"I'm glad that Jimmy Savile's name will be recorded in the history books as that of a serial paedophile"

he's an idiot.

He is so clueless he doesn't realise the World and His Dog now have the power to produce Stalinist style revisions of history.

The truth is MWT will not even be a footnote in history. Whether Savile becomes a Mother Theresa or a Vlad the Impala is quite immaterial and I think Jimmy wouldn't care about either.

Amanda has added another comment that's worth reading.

I suspect you're right about MWT not even being a footnote in history, hedda, but he seems to have had a hand in driving a path of destruction through several people's lives, maybe even including people who weren't already in the public eye.

This quote from him seems just as sinister now as it did when I first heard it:

"If we can ta*... if we can prosecute or have prosecuted the most untouchable, then everybody is fair game."

twitter.com/mwilliamsthomas/status/563626316533362688
audioboom.com/posts/2867220-mark-william...p;utm_source=twitter

* pronounced "tah" as in "target"

"Fair game" = "A person or thing that is considered a reasonable target for criticism, exploitation, or attack" (Oxford dictionaries)

I think his choice of language/Freudian slip betrayed a very sinister and skewed attitude to the process of law enforcement/dispensation of justice and the use of "we" again makes me wonder how heavily involved he was in assisting the police pull innocent people in and bringing about miscarriages of justice.

More in a thread from last year:
www.kingofhits.co.uk/component/option,co...w/catid,2/id,188492/

Indeed that is the creepiest comment and so sinister. Idiot ignorant of British history where the pursuit of the rich and famous by bent coppers has been par for the course..sometimes winning and occasionally losing.

And what a plonket.. Savile powerful? Fool
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