[1] Watts left Exaro in 2016 and it closed later that year after having published reports on sexual abuse and murder allegations from Carl Beech.
[5] Watts later hosted the live daily news show "Between the Headlines" on Press TV, in which he invited politicians, senior journalists and commentators to join him in reviewing the day's newspapers.
He is the author of The Fleet Street Sewer Rat (2005), an investigative book which describes the scavenging techniques used by bin raider Benji Pell.
[6][7] Nick Davies, a journalist from The Guardian, attended the Leveson Inquiry as a witness and described The Fleet Street Sewer Rat as "the best single source, hugely detailed, of information about the dark arts of journalism.
[9] False allegations of sex crimes and murder committed by a VIP paedophile ring made by Carl Beech (then known under the pseudonym "Nick") were first reported by Exaro in 2014.