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Apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, was last seen alive leaving the white washed house at around 7.30am on June 17 after heading there with convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, 31, and another man following an all-night rave. Within days former detective Williams-Thomas flew to the Spanish island and at the time said he would get answers 'within 72 hours' and he spoke to several witnesses as well as Jay's mother Debbie Duncan. Tragically, a month later Jay's body was found and the TV sleuth - who exposed Jimmy Savile - says he now knows why the youngster left the remote Airbnb in the remote village of Masca but he has refused to go into details. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, school finance officer Debbie, 55, said: 'If he knows something I wish he would say it, otherwise people will think it's just publicity and it's not doing me any good.'

A TV detective has claimed he knows the real reason why tragic British teenager Jay Slater (pictured right with his mother) left an Airbnb in the early hours of the morning before his death. Mark Williams-Thomas (left), a former police officer turned TV sleuth, is known for presenting a documentary which exposed Jimmy Savile and investigating a number of high-profile cases, including missing Maddie McCann and the PPE scandal. He flew out to Tenerife to meet with the missing 19-year-old's family after he vanished in June and promised to get 'answers'. The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, disappeared while on a three-day holiday for a music festival with friends. His body was sadly found after a month-long search just a few metres from his last known location. It's still unknown why he decided to leave the Airbnb on a walk that resulted in his fall down a treacherous and inaccessible ravine, but Mr Williams-Thomas now claims he knows the reason. The former officer mentioned the 'huge amount of misinformation' surrounding the case, admitting some of what he was told in the 'early days' wasn't 'accurate, wasn't correct'.

A boss at an exclusive Edinburgh school says 'dark times' experienced by BBC presenter Nicky Campbell (left) and other former pupils who were abused there are 'never leaving' the institution. Samantha Byers (right), chief operating officer at Edinburgh Academy, said the school was 'light years' from what it was then and was 'very much about educate on it, rather than archive it' as it strives to ensure past horrors are never repeated. The reaction of its current pupils to the historic abuse uncovered at the prestigious school, she added, was one of 'sheer shock' and 'horror'. Her comments come weeks after it was revealed retired maths teacher Iain Wares, 85, was facing more than 100 allegations of abuse towards young boys at the school - as well as at Fettes College, where he taught in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr Campbell, a pupil between 1966 and 1978 who suffered abuse from another teacher, compared Wares to Jimmy Savile at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.

It was while working for BBC's Newsnight that I first met Mohamed Al Fayed (right). The year was 1985 and he'd become the talk of the town after buying two great British institutions - the Dorchester Hotel and Harrods. It would be some time before he would begin his battle for British citizenship, but his wealth and controversial way of doing business had made him a subject of ­political interest. I'll never forget my visceral reaction to the man. I felt my flesh creep and couldn't get away from him fast enough. He hadn't made a move or touched me but there was something about him. He was one of those men who look you up and down in the way a farmer would view a cow at a cattle market, thankfully ­turning away with a sniff of ­dismissal in my case.

A depraved former children's hospital night superintendent was today told he faced dying behind bars after being jailed for 25 years for an appalling catalogue of abuse against young boys. Graham Goodchild, now 82, used his position as a senior paediatric nurse at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool in the 1960s and 70s to carry out sex attacks on boys as young as five. In a chilling echo of the way twisted Jimmy Savile exploited his fame to abuse scores of hospital patients, the predator targeted victims after winning their parents' trust. Taking advantage of having the run of the wards while working nights, Goodchild won permission to take boys on days out before subjecting them to sickening sex assaults.

The BBC have decided to cut a number of moments - including a joke about Jimmy Savile and full-frontal male nudity - from their hit series, Industry.  Set in the heart of Canary Wharf, the show centres on a group of ambitious young graduates as they attempt to make it in investment banking.  The show - which is created, written, and executively produced by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay - is a Bad Wolf Production for both HBO and the BBC.  

EXCLUSIVE: Mohamed Al-Fayed had a Ghislaine Maxwell-style 'fixer' who would procure pretty, young women off the streets for him to have sex with. The glamourous blonde associate would frequent wealthy areas of west London dressed in designer clothes and driving a Porsche. She would approach attractive young women and build a rapport with them by boasting of her wealth and success before offering to introduce them to her rich businessman 'friend'. In fact, the woman - who is now in her 40s and runs her own recruitment company - was a senior executive at Harrods at the time and one of the disgraced billionaire's closest allies. She would approach mostly attractive young women in the street and invite them out for coffee or cocktails at swanky locations in London, building their trust with promises to help their careers.

Five women have claimed they were raped by the Harrods tycoon, who died last year aged 94, and a further 20 female employees allege Al Fayed sexually assaulted them. 'Monster' Al-Fayed allegedly forced some of his victims to take sexual health tests and left them 'petrified' while attempting to abuse them - with Harrods now standing accused of covering up the rape claims levelled against Al-Fayed. So horrific was some of the alleged abuse suffered at the hands of Al-Fayed, those representing his victims compared him to sex predators Jimmy Savile , Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. But lawyers today warned the true extent of Al-Fayed's alleged offending could go further, 'with victims all over the world' - with investigations now taking place at the Ritz in Paris and Fulham FC, which were owned by the tycoon. During a bombshell press conference on Friday, barristers admitted they were looking into the two other businesses, with barrister Maria Mulla telling journalists: 'Wherever he went, there will be victims.'

Lawyers representing the former Harrods employees who claim they were raped and sexually assaulted by late billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed have described him as 'a monster' as they laid bare today his 'vast web of abuse'.

Mr Davies told an adviser to Queen Elizabeth II of his concerns about the Princess of Wales and her sons, William and Harry, going on holiday with the Al-Fayed and his son, Dodi, shortly before Diana's death in 1997, but says his advice was ignored. Last night Sir Keir Starmer faced questions about the failure to prosecute Al-Fayed, who died in 2023 aged 94, during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions as it was alleged that the tycoon preyed on staff for decades. The Prime Minister was head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2009 when its lawyers decided not to charge the Egyptian-born businessman over claims that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old schoolgirl the previous year.

Former police officer Mark Williams-Thomas, who helped to expose Jimmy Savile as a paedophile in 2012, was reportedly part of a police probe into the late Egyptian businessman's alleged sex crimes while he was still alive. Writing in The Mirror, Mr Williams-Thomas claimed there were five victims who were willing to testify against Mr Al Fayed, including a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old that were allegedly 'attacked' by him. But after five months working on the case with the Metropolitan Police , the Crown Prosecution Service decided it would not take any action.

BBC staff have been forced to defend themselves against being 'paedo protectors' in the wake of the Huw Edwards scandal which rocked the under-fire corporation. The Welshman, who was previously the BBC's star presenter, smiled as he was spared jail at Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday. The 63-year-old previously admitted three charges of 'making' indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by convicted paedophile Alex Williams over WhatsApp but was handed six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.It is the latest in a long line of damning controversies for the broadcaster, as public trust in the news company which employed Jimmy Savile plummets. Staff at the BBC even admitted they face accusations of being 'paedo protectors' while out filming and slammed a culture of protecting 'top talent' where they feel unable to raise grievances at the risk of their career.

Emma-Jane Taylor, who founded the Not My Shame social media movement in the UK last year, claimed the sentence Edwards' received could encourage other abusers. She told Good Morning Britain: 'This potentially green lights another more serious situation for a child. It puts children at risks because abusers will look at this and think ''actually, this guy's got off, he's gone home, I'll give it a go''. The justice system in the UK is ludicrous. It's absurd, embarrassing and it's not going to protect children.'

Please can you tell me whether the GP issue seat belt Exemption Certificates are still legally required in light of new legislation with AI cameras to check on seat belt wearing? This is a grey area for disabled drivers, and I do not know where to find the answer.

A BAFTA award winning star looks unrecognisable in the first look at Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove. The actor has overhauled his image to star in the theatre adaptation of the iconic 1964 film, playing at the Noël Coward Theatre in London next month. The household name will be taking on the titular role as well as three other characters in the production which centres on an unhinged American general who orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union.

The disgraced radio DJ, who died 12 years ago, had frequently boasted about his membership of the world's oldest high-IQ society, although his crimes were only uncovered posthumously. There is no evidence that Savile committed any offenses during Mensa events or that the organisation was aware of his misconduct. Mensa's British Board recently proposed barring members convicted of serious crimes to protect the society's reputation. But the move has sparked opposition from members who argue that it contradicts Mensa's founding principle of accepting anyone who meets the required IQ threshold.

Public discontent over BBC bosses' arrogant and inept handling of the Huw Edwards scandal is growing every day. A 'Defund the BBC' campaign is attracting increasing support, with backers saying the Corporation 'has serious questions to answer' about why the promised reforms to prevent a repeat of the Jimmy Savile affair have not worked and why 'the British people are still forced to pay for big-name salaries and cover-ups'. It is completely understandable why so many licence fee payers are wondering why their hard-earned money is being used to fund the pension pot of someone convicted of sharing indecent images of children, and for the bloated wages of the management who indulged him. There have been public protests against the BBC before and one-off campaigns to refuse paying the annual TV licence fee (currently £169.50). For example, the former newspaper editor Charles Moore refused to pay in protest at the BBC's decision not to sack Jonathan Ross after he and fellow Radio 2 presenter Russell Brand were exposed by The Mail on Sunday in 2008 for leaving obscene messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone.

When he stepped into the role less than four years ago, Tim Davie (left) may have foreseen that he was taking over an institution that could face further troubles - especially after the appalling acts of once-stars like Jimmy Savile. But the incoming Director-General could scarcely have imagined in his darkest dreams that by taking on the title at the BBC in September 2020 he would one day be facing the living nightmare of the Huw Edwards child sex images scandal. Edwards - one of the most trusted faces in public life - had been hiding a secret lust that saw him twice sent a video of a boy under nine among scores of other vile indecent pictures. But while it is by far the worst, it is just one of many disasters the Director-General has been forced to tackle on his watch.

Huw Edwards' guilty plea to the possession of child pornography, including one picture of a child as young as seven years old, is a momentous event in more ways than one. It obviously marks the ruination of the man who was the BBC's most highly-paid newsreader and its chosen successor to David Dimbleby as the anchor of great state occasions. Edwards' guilty plea to these extremely grave charges is also a reputational blow to the BBC itself, which had indulged him constantly and failed to respond in a decent or humane manner when allegations of impropriety were first made about him.

Today the corporation's troubles deepened as former face of BBC News Huw Edwards pleaded guilty to making vile pictures of children. But he is just the latest in a long series of paedophiles who have worked at the BBC, many of whom have been exposed following the Savile scandal which rocked the corporation in the early 2010s. The reputation of the BBC has been marred by one paedophile scandal after another dating back over half a century.

Jay Slater was last seen as he set out to walk from Masca, a village in the northwest of the Canary Island, to where he had been staying in Los Cristianos in the south. It was a trip that would have taken about 11 hours on foot over rugged terrain. Twenty-nine days after Slater vanished, police discovered a body believed to be Slater. The teen's possessions and clothing were found near the remains. The investigation into the disappearance of Slater, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, in Lancashire, has been dominated by unanswered questions and wild conspiracy theories. Now, MailOnline has unpacked six key questions that the community is asking about the high-profile missing persons case.

Former Met Police officer Mr Williams-Thomas claimed he had passed the find on to British and Spanish police who have been left baffled by the apprentice bricklayer's vanishing act. Jay, 19, was last seen on June 17 after leaving a nightclub in Playa de las Americas in the company of two British men and driven to a remote AirBnB an hour away in the village of Masca. A massive 13-day search involving dogs, drones and helicopters has failed to find any trace and speculation is growing that he may not even be in the remote Teno National Park fuelling more heartache for his family.

Jay Slater refused a lift from a 'new pal' minutes before he went missing in Tenerife because he was in too much of a rush to get home, it is claimed. The apprentice bricklayer had been in the company of convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim in the early hours of June 17 - the day he disappeared on the Spanish island - having met him at a club the night before. Qassim, 31, who was one of the last people to see Jay before he vanished, told MailOnline earlier this week had invited the Lancashire teenager back to his £40-a-night AirBnB rental in Masca. Now TV sleuth Mark Williams-Thomas says he has interviewed Qassim, who posted a video of himself on Instagram sitting on the same mosaic style doorstep where Jay sent his final Snapchat image on June 17, and gathered new information. The investigator told MailOnine that Qassim claimed to have had offered Jay a lift back to his hotel in the morning, but was turned down as the missing teenager was hungry and unwilling to wait.

EXCLUSIVE: Qassim, 31, was one of the last people to see missing apprentice bricklayer Jay,19, along with another British man who he has refused to identify. Earlier this week MailOnline tracked Qassim down to his east London home after we established he had booked the £40 a night Airbnb in Masca on the Spanish island of Tenerife. This was where Jay headed to following an after party at Papagayo nightclub on the infamous Veronicas Strip in the raucous Playa de las Americas resort popular with British holidaymakers.