a junior police officer at Surrey Police stumbled upon a liar making false allegations about a minor celebrity (me) at the prompting of a Public Relations person (Max Clifford) who the liar had approached with a story about sex abuse in the 1970s.
Clifford told him "you need a famous name" so the liar added MY name. Clifford then told him to go to Surrey Police and make a formal complaint.
The junior cop taking the man's statement was Mark Williams Thomas.
He realised this was a potential Goldmine. Celebrity perverts!
Sadly he was booted out of the police and had nothing to do with that prosecution (though he tried to benefit from it by offering names and contact details to the tabloids).
During his interview with the liar (oddly ON HIS OWN - pushing his partner cop away to having tea with the liar's wife who - to this day - found this odd) he gathered a list including many other celebrity names - mainly pop people, DJs and footballers.
I still have that list.
After a period of failure (he worked for a company cleaning pavements of chewing gum and earned the nickname GUMSHOE) and court appearances for BLACKMAIL (he was acquitted), he tried to set up further prosecutions but really hit pay dirt when, after Jimmy Savile's death, he "exposed" the dead minor celebrity on TV.
The man's name is Mark Williams Thomas.
Unbelievable? Read this story.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6350331...lice-ruin-lives.html