Is crime stoppers truly anonymous

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i'll try and make this logical but it is t really my story to tell.

an ex relative committed a horrible crime against his child many years ago but managed to keep it secret for a very long time. it was reported when it came out but the passage of time has meant the Police aren't proceeding due to evidential issues.

I have overwhelming, publicly available evidence of a different crime he has committed involving a high value theft. It involves a link to a name that generates huge media interest.

if i took the Al Capone approach to justice and reported him to crimestoppers for the crime i can evidence as retribution for the crime he won't but should be prosecuted for, am i totally anonymous?

the website says yes but i need to be sure.

his ex partner and mother of the child is going through hell with him in dealing with the knowledge of what he has done, him dragging things through family court where he is acting father of the year and continuing to abuse her through the child who was too young at the time to remember what happened and the mother never wants them to find out to try and protect them from unnecessary trauma

would you report to crimestoppers?

i forgot to add, i don't want to make things worse for mum or child but he is destroying them through the family courts when all she has done is try to protect her child from this awful man.

if i can anonymously give her a helping hand i really would like to but any chance it comes out it was me and things would get worse.

also why should these men get away with awful behaviour when there is a way of dealing with them via the back door for the overall good?

You can remain anonymous by simply refusing to give your name.

i understand that but i just wonder if they can try and find out who you are or is their claim that they have never traced anyone actually 100% true.

https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/our-guarantee-of-anonymity

Information video about how it is anonymous.

Do it. But only you know how you know about this crime he has committed. Why hasn't he already been prosecuted:

I have overwhelming, publicly available evidence of a different crime he has committed involving a high value theft. It involves a link to a name that generates huge media interest.

it's hard to say without completely outing things.
it's because the crime has never been reported to the police. due to the nature of the theft, unless it is reported with his identity the Police won't act.

I’d imagine the police are unlikely to do anything about an alleged theft which the victim themselves hasn’t even reported based on a random anonymous allegation from somebody. Even if they did, how likely is the victim to be cooperative, when they clearly don’t want the police involved, when the police contact them asking “somebody has told us your Monet was stolen and that a man named Richard Doofus did it, is this true?” And how would you stay anonymous, once the victim and the perpetrator realise somebody must have informed the police and there can’t be very many people who know about this crime?

why not send the info without your details to the police?

At the same time to Crimestoopers

You wont decide if the "evidence is overwhelming," it will be the police

With crime stoppers they ask if you would mind being contacted again via their site and is the answer is yes, then you get a reference number.

So go ahead and put the 'overwhelming evidence forward'

No need to wait

I'd do it. It sounds like the only way to get this despicable person behind bars

I dount they'll act on an anonymous previously unreported crime either.

It is anonymous but if they start investigating a crime that hasn't been reported how easy will it be for the victim and perpetrator of that crime to come up with a shortlist of who reported it?