A man was arrested on Tuesday after new claims that Tottenham Hotspur hired private investigators to snoop on West Ham and the Olympic Park Legacy Company during the Olympic Stadium bid. The Metropolitan Police revealed that they had held the 29-year-old from Sussex after Baroness Ford, chair of the OPLC, attacked Spurs’ ‘vexatious’ behaviour and …
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Monty Python star John Cleese has accused the country’s most high-profile divorce lawyer of wasting thousands of pounds of his money on private detectives to find out where he was living, according to the Mail. Cleese says Fiona Shackleton, who advised his former wife during his divorce, hired private investigators to track him down to …
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The BBC has hired private detectives to help make its investigative programmes, according to the corporation’s director-general, The Times reported on Saturday. Several BBC programmes “have done and continue to do” use the services of investigators, director-general Mark Thompson told the daily. He said the use of private investigators had always been done under the …
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The UK is currently experiencing a problem with staged car accidents and the resulting fraudulent accident claims. Even though the Insurance Fraud Bureau has made substantial progress with arrests and forcing down the number of gangs, these “cash for crash” claims scams are still rampant and the problem is still rife in the north of the …
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