Alan Williams (criminal)
Alan Williams, the "Welsh Witch", pedophile, homosexual and pimp who operated mainly between Britain and Amsterdam. He and his gang including Warren Spinks chose Amsterdam because the LGBT activists have succeeded in lowering the age of consent there to the lowest in Europe.
Williams arrived in Amsterdam in 1988, aged 21, by which age he already had a history of abusing boys in south Wales. He set up a male brothel called Boys Club 21 at 21 Spuistraat, near the central station. Across the road at number 44, a Londoner named Warwick Spinks, then 25, ran a similar club, the Gay Palace. Both had a legal business, running a bar and offering adult male prostitutes. But Williams organised the importing of boys from Cardiff and London, inflicting intense violence on any who defied him. Spinks obtained boys as young as 10 - first, from the streets of London, and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, from the poverty of eastern Europe. Having brought them to Amsterdam, he used these "chickens" himself, sold them into the brothels or "escort agencies" and photographed them for pornography. Most were made to comply through the removal of their passports and doses of drugs and violence.
By 1990, these two clubs on Spuistraat, together with Boys for Men, De Boys, the Blue Boy and the Why Not, had an international clientele. Dutch police estimated there were 250 pedophiles involved in the production of child pornography in Amsterdam. Child-sex tourists came from all over the world. Stephen Smith, who had helped to found the Paedophile Information Exchange, fled there; Russell Tricker, now 58, a former private school teacher who was convicted of child sex offences in the UK, used his job as a coach driver to ferry boys from London; John Broomhall opened a porn shop on Spuistraat and was caught with more than 1,000 copies of videos of under-aged boys; Mark Enfield, now 41, sold a video of himself abusing a drugged boy.
John Gay and Lee Tucker, two friends of Alan Williams from Wales, trafficked Welsh boys into the clubs on Spuistraat and made child pornography. They bought video equipment, set up TAG Films, and visited Amsterdam regularly to make films, which they sold through distributors in the US and Germany. At the time, Dutch law punished production of child pornography with a maximum sentence of only three months. These porn videos, featuring boys and bondage, were smuggled in to the UK and similar ones made in London smuggled back over the Channel. An informant told police that at the Gay Palace you watch videos of boys in bondage, aged 11 to 14, being penetrated by masked men. Another informant said Spinks was selling a special video for £4,000. It showed a boy whom he thought was only eight or nine being sexually abused and tortured by two men. In 1993, a third informant told police about Spinks showing him a video of a murder - a boy who seemed no older than 12 was beaten and attacked with needles, before being castrated and cut open with a knife. The video seemed to have been shot in a barn. And two different informants described similar videos. Detectives later learned that Williams and his friends had been talking about making a video in a barn that belonged to Lothar Glandorf, a German who owned one of the Spuistraat clubs.
Dutch and UK police set up Operation Framework, and recruited an undercover officer to pose as a child abuser and befriend Warwick Spinks in England. Spinks admitted how he picked up boys in Dresden, in Bratislava in the Czech Republic, and in Poland, where, he claimed, they cost only 10p (USA 15 cents). The undercover officer asked Spinks if he could get him a sado-masochistic video featuring boys as young as 10, and Spinks replied that he knew people in Amsterdam who could: "I know, well I knew, some people who were involved in making snuff movies and how they did it was, they only sold them in limited editions, made 10 copies or something, 10 very rich customers in America, who paid $5,000 each or something like that".
But Spinks could not produce a copy of the video so UK police could not continue the investigation. They arrested Spinks in Hastings and charged him with abducting and raping two homeless boys from the streets of London and selling one of them into a Spuistraat brothel. He was jailed for five years. Another homosexual named Edward, claimed to have seen five Amsterdam videos, each featuring the sexual torture and death of a boy. Dutch police investigated and said they could find no surviving examples.
There are strong suspicions of a connection with the disappearance of various children in other parts of Europe. Spinks told the undercover officer that a German boy was killed; he hinted to another person that a German boy named Manny had been murdered; boys who worked in Spuistraat at that time confirm that a boy of that name and nationality, then 14, did disappear. There may be a clue here to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Manuel Schadwald in Berlin in 1993.
Other witnesses describe a video of a Dutch boy, aged about 16.