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THE PRIVATE EYE
by Anthony Butlin of Trojan Investigations
Welcome to my monthly editorial where I describe some aspects of my work and give an insight as to what I have been doing over the last four weeks .
My month began with some difficulty . The main piece of equipment that I have needed some TLC and that item is my vehicle . I began to think that every vehicle in front of me was throwing out bad exhaust fumes until I drove back home from Liverpool city centre along a country road and suspected it was actually my car . I got home and felt light headed and my wife told me I smelt of gas ! Needless to say the car had a visit to the garage .
So what has the best investigator been doing over the last month ? I ’ ve received plenty of calls both nationally and internationally with enquiries into tracing people and completing background checks . I ’ ve seen a huge increase in child custody calls too . This is where one parent will want to dig the dirt on the other parent to gain custody of a child . There are no winners in cases like these , just losers and the losers more often than not are the children .
Two weeks ago I conducted some surveillance on a male in the Wirral . His estranged wife called me to say that the male was regularly smoking cannabis and even smokes it when he has his two young daughters over the weekends . Within the first two hours of surveillance , I filmed the male putting his two children in his vehicle and then rolled a joint and lit it before getting in the drivers seat . I followed him along the road and as he had his window open , I could smell the cannabis and filmed him blowing the smoke out !
At times like these , I am morally bound to call the Police . It ’ s the last thing I wanted to do as it will upset the children further , however I cannot have it on my conscience that I am witnessing someone drive a vehicle under the influence of drugs and it possibly crashing and harming or even worse , killing other people . I would have blood on my hands .
I had a background check to complete too a couple of weeks ago . This was on behalf of a client who lives in Spain with her daughter . The daughter had got into a relationship with a male over there , however he was British . The client stated he was constantly borrowing money from her daughter and was in her opinion , a ' Walter Mitty ' ( fantasist )
character . After some investigation , the male was found to be on the run from the Police which the client duly forwarded them the male ' s location .
In case you would like to know , a background check can show you all previous addresses the subject has lived and with who they resided with , any email addresses and phone numbers linked to the person . It can show any credit default history such as IVA ’ s or bankruptcies and if the subject has creditors , who they are and how much is owed .
We search for all court appearances and conduct a full social media sweep to show all accounts they have in use . Please get in touch if you are interested .
I have deployed 6 trackers in the last four weeks , all of which are producing the goods shall we say ! I have a client who is a landlord of a house who hasn ’ t been paid rent for months . The bailiffs are due to go in but the client wanted me to do a trace on where his tenants were going to live next to serve them legal paperwork when they run . The quickest and easiest way to find out was to put a tracker under the tenants car and hey presto ... we have a new address right away !
Tonight , I am going to the Hilton in Liverpool city centre with my team to follow yet another male who lives in Luton but is staying in Liverpool for a ‘ works conference ’. I get this scenario so often . They hired another company to do it last night , however the client has come to me as the footage she received from yesterday was blurred and you could not identify the woman who the male was kissing the face off ! I have honestly never seen such bad footage . When clients come to me , I give them the best , clearest evidence which cannot be questioned . There was no point in this other company being there if they can ’ t film correctly . Our saying is ‘ if it ’ s not on camera , it never happened !’. Part of this may have been a lack of correct equipment too but in any case , I will enjoy sitting down in the lobby watching the world go by until Casanova walks in !
As always , if you have any questions about any of my services or you want something doing that you aren ’ t sure if I can help you with , call me . I ’ m here to help and advise on a totally confidential basis .
Until next time , Anthony .
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