At London’s Southwark Crown Court, in May 2016, Dr John Davies, a dangerous criminal was finally sent to prison, having evaded justice for decades. Davies was imprisoned alongside his son Benjamin Davies .The judge that sentenced Davies to 12 years in prison described his crimes as ‘despicable’. But Davies was not imprisoned for his numerous crimes against women and children, but for masterminding a sophisticated charity operation that netted him more than £5 million defrauded from the British taxpayer. As a lifelong feminist, campaigning against sexual violence, I had been investigating Davies for almost 20 years for his crimes of sexual violence and abuse dating back to the early 1980s. But despite investigations by Europol, and by police in the UK, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and the US into allegations of baby trafficking and organised prostitution, somehow nothing ever stuck to Davies. My investigation of him is a saga-length exposé that has had a considerable effect on my life. It has almost landed me in court on libel charges, prompted me to travel to several countries in pursuit of evidence, and introduced me to the best and the worst of humanity. Davies is the most dangerous man I have encountered in almost four decades of campaigning against crimes towards women and girls, and yet prior to his conviction in 2016 he was considered an esteemed academic, a philanthropist running charities for impoverished women and girls, an anti trafficking activist, and a goodhearted Christian. John Davies I first met Davies in 1999 at a conference about sex trafficking of women and girls. I was approached by two police officers who were aware that I was a British anti-trafficking campaigner. They asked if I knew “the big man in the corner … Teflon John … wearing a grubby-looking suit?” The officers told me that Davies, who traveled the world speaking about trafficking at academic conferences, was suspected of running a ‘baby fattening’ business from his farm in Hungary, in Balástya, close to the Romanian border. There was evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in London that Davies had combed the Balkan region looking for pregnant women who had been raped by soldiers. Posing as a Christian missionary, Davies offered the women a place to see out their pregnancy and then he offered to find a respectable, loving couple from the US or UK to adopt their baby. I made enquiries among my anti-trafficking colleagues, some of who had heard rumours about Davies’ baby trafficking exploits. One activist told me that Davies had been overheard at a conference bragging to a delegate that he helped “girls” get to London and Athens, and that he could “fiddle” with visas. Davies was a passionate supporter of legalised prostitution and referred to trafficked women as “migrant sex workers”. She told me: “Rumours about him selling newborn babies to Western couples were well-substantiated.” Davies threatened to sue her when she published information about him on her website. I discovered an article from the Sunday Times from January 1999 repeating allegations about baby trafficking that had been made in previous newspaper reports about Davies way back in 1995. The Sunday Times piece reported on a more recent scandal: Davies had been investigated by the European Commission on suspicion of running a roadside brothel near his Hungarian farmhouse. The grant had been awarded to Davies to provide ‘roadside services’, such as distributing condoms and providing legal advice and counseling, for ‘sex workers’; the preferred term used to describe women in prostitution by those who consider it to be harmless moneymaking endeavour. I heard from my contacts that when allegations of Davies’ criminal exploits had been exposed on the website of an anti-trafficking academic in the US, Davies again threatened to sue and the academic was forced by the university administration to remove her allegations. I decided to keep