Charles Thomson is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, praised for his 'tenacity, intelligence, courage and dogged determination'.

He is perhaps best-known for his long-running investigation into alleged police corruption linked to a 1980s paedophile ring. His work forced Essex Police to reopen the case three times, unmasked one of the UK's most prolific child molesters as a secret police informant, and set a new Freedom of Information precedent.

The investigation, turned into the hit podcast series 'Unfinished: Shoebury's Lost Boys', won the Ray Fitzwalter Award for Investigative Journalism and was shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award. The Society of Editors twice declared Charles the best weekly newspaper reporter in Britain and he was commended at the British Journalism Awards.

Charles's stories have been picked up by the Sun, Mirror, Guardian, Daily Star, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Private Eye and more. Formerly the chief reporter and news editor at the Yellow Advertiser newspaper series in Essex, he now works for the prestigious Archant Investigations Unit, covering London and Hertfordshire.

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