CASE STUDY 1 - Personal Injury claimant

We were instructed by a leading Motor Insurer to carry out surveillance on a suspected injury claimant who was allegedly unable to work due to a back injury and was in receipt of a vehicle through the motobility scheme. He came out of his address on two consecutive days and on each walked around the block checking for any watching eyes before driving away and collecting a furniture removal van! Our use of specially adapted cars rather than traditional surveillance vans ensured that he was not suspicious of our presence. We then filmed him over the two days professionally furniture moving and lifting all manner of heavy furniture from address to address. When the film was disclosed to the claimant's solicitors they dropped the claim and are now being pursued by our clients for costs and recovery of the car provided.

CASE STUDY 2 - Dishonest absenteeism

A London based transport company were concerned for a driver who repeatedly went sick with a back injury which allegedly prevented him driving. We were tasked to carry out surveillance and filmed him over two mornings driving his children to work and then engaged at home running his own business. He was called into work for an interview and was filmed being picked up by a friend and driven into the workplace. During the interview he exaggerated his back injury to his manager and struggled to get out of a chair in mock pain. He was followed home in his friend’s car and then filmed later carrying out the school run again driving his own car. He was sacked by the company and appealed. Once he was shown the quality of the video evidence against him he dropped his appeal.

CASE STUDY 3 - Worldwide trace

We were tasked by solicitors to trace a sole beneficiary of a will going back over 30 years and in which all the other named parties had died. The beneficiary had a common name but by clever detective work utilising databases and records going back over past decades we were able to establish his date of birth and a possible address in Australia. With the use of a close associate based in Australia we were able to locate and positively identify the beneficiary. He was duly pleased not only with his financial prize but also being re-united with some of his unknown English family relatives.

CASE STUDY 4 - Evasive debtor

We were asked by a client to serve some bankruptcy papers on a local individual but when we called at the address given we found it had been recently sold by the debtor despite cautions held at the land registry. The debtor had escaped with over £100k which he had previously agreed through the courts to give to his creditors. We pursued the debtor from one address to another as he tried to evade being captured and hounded him into submission. Realising he could not escape our attentions he gave up the chase and presented himself for questioning and handed over all the money in cash!