Episode 36: He's Worse Than Savile! (2025)

Is it possible that someone could be more evil than the disgraced BBC star and paedophile Jimmy Saville? Step forward prison officer and cook Neville Husband, now considered to be the most prolific sexual offender in British history. He committed most of his crimes at a young offenders detention centre near Durham but was only ever convicted of abusing five teenagers - his real tally is nearer 400! How was he allowed to get away with it for so long and why only now, 15 years after his death, are the full horrors of his reign of abuse becoming public? Emeritus Professor of Criminology David Wilson and journalist and broadcast Martin Frizell explore Husband's case and discuss what makes a paedophile.