Its never good to be caught with your trousers down!

In the 70’s a young man came to our London office with what seemed to be at first an unbelievable story. He said he had recently been released from prison having been sentenced to 12 months for theft from his and his wife’s employer who supplied car parts. He said that following a reported theft by his employer the Police raided his flat and searched his car finding car accessory items still in the packaging and clearly marked with his employers name.He went on to say that he had been fitted up by a Senior Police Officer who was having an affair with his wife and who wanted him out of the way. He told us that he had had a previous conviction for theft some years ago which didn’t help him in trying to prove his innocence. He was estranged from his wife who was still living in what was the matrimonial home and he said that the Police Officer was visiting his wife at her address at least twice a week.

We agreed to take the case on, although being honest we were very sceptical about the whole situation. We set up a surveillance on the premises which were a block of high rise flats in South London. On the second day of the surveillance and to our complete surprise we saw a dark blue Hillman saloon which at that time Senior Police Officers would often use together with a driver as their method of transport. A male person who fitted the description that had been given to us by our client got out of the back seat of the vehicle . We immediately followed this person into the building where the doors of the lift were just closing. We watched as it ascended to the tenth floor. We then immediately got in the other lift and went to the clients wife’s flat on the tenth floor. We listened at the door and could hear voices and laughter from within the flat. Having waited for about 30 minutes we knocked at the door, which was eventually opened by the clients wife in a dressing gown. We immediately rushed into the bedroom and found the Police Officer struggling to get his trousers on. Having photographed the situation and been threatened with certain death from the Police Officer we hastily left.

Our evidence and photographs enabled the client to have his conviction quashed, and receive compensation. The Police Officer was suspended for planting evidence and eventually resigned. He should have gone to prison. As expected the client and  his wife divorced. The unbelievable can sometimes be true.

If you have a similar problem and think that your partner may be cheating on you with someone else call Nationwide Investigations on 0800 181 383 to set up a surveillance and find out the truth.

We have all had potential clients who have appeared to be more in need of psychiactric help rather than a Private Investigator although it’s always prudent not to dismiss these people out of hand.

One good example of this was a client who approached us many years ago seeking help to catch a ghost that was tormenting her. First impressions of course were leaning towards disbelief in as much as she had the appearance of a witch, lived in a large old Victorian house in London and had two rooms let out to tenants.

She went on to say that two or three times a week, over the last year this ‘ghost’ would bang and crash around the house, slam and rattle doors and knock things over. She said she was too frightened to leave her bedroom and see what was going on. She asked her tenants whether they heard this ‘ghost’ which they denied hearing. We arranged to have an agent stay at her house and do an undercover surveillance without the tenants being informed. I should say agents because no one would do it on their own.

During the first week our agents were lucky enough to be in the house when at about 2AM they heard ghostly noises and thumps during the night, door rattling and banging and things being knocked over.  Having built up enough courage and probably holding hands they rushed into the hallway and low and behold witnessed two ‘ghosts’ in the form of the two tenants who were more shocked at seeing our agents than our agents would have been if they had been ghosts.

Well in the end it all turned out to be an exercise in gaining possession of the old lady’s property, her property being the only one that had not been acquired by developers in a proposed supermarket development.