"A man of the people is allowed near the people. Terrible, terrible things happened because of that."
— TV critic Mark Lawson
"Television protects itself. Television can construct its own performance and carry on doing it over and over and over again, to applause, and there's nothing that can stop it."
— Selina Scott
"In my experience of assessing and treating many, many such individuals over the last 25 years, they themselves feel the only way for them to benefit from treatment is to also be punished. And their attitude tends to be, 'Thank goodness I was caught because I couldn't stop myself.' Not getting caught is a disaster. What happens to the person who commits crime over a hugely long period of time? I would say that they're actually triumphant at getting away with it. That there's something terribly exciting about being able to pull the wool over people's eyes, to be able to deceive people. It fuels the sense of triumphalism, the omnipotence."
— Carine Minne
"I realized that it's a different type of criminal. They weren't without brains. They manipulate the people around them. Family, friends, people that they work with. These people create this other world almost. They live almost a parallel life. They try to fuck with your head as well."
— Michael Hames, former head of Scotland Yard's pedophile unit
