Ikea in Trouble for Illegal Surveillance Campaign

Across the channel, a high street giant finds itself in trouble this week after an illegal surveillance campaign. Police in France raided Ikea’s Paris headquarters, following accusations that the company hired private detectives to illegally spy on customers and staff. According an article published in the Guardian newspaper police swooped on the Swedish furniture giant’s […]

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Private Detectives Offer Hope for Disgraced Surgeon

Private detectives in Romania could be about to offer new hope to a surgeon accused of malpractice. Traian Romeo Ursu from Foisor Hospital in Bucharest was sentenced to a year in prison in 2005 and ordered to pay 500,000 Euros to a patient who claimed he could no longer walk after a hernia operation. The […]

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Missing Persons

When it comes to cases of missing persons, there is a great variation in the work that is available and what a private investigator can participate in. Our main missing persons work is related to tracing debtors and finding old friends or long lost relatives for our clients. These cases may not be what people […]

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Cheating Partners

As a private detective agency we spend a great deal of time investigating cheating partners. This work has long been part of the private detective service and in our many years in the game we have caught out hundreds of cheating partners, helping many people to move on from difficulties in their relationship and get […]

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Don’t Believe the Hype

One of the news highlights for me in 2012 was the spectacular trial of Jason Simpson in which he was found guilty of the hideous double murder of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman – a crime for which his father OJ Simpson had previously been wrongly blamed. If you don’t remember the trial, it’s probably […]

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Private Detective London

Private Detective London Privatedetective.co.uk offers a full range of investigation services across London and the UK. Privatedetective.co.uk prides itself on being a truly national agency.  It began life as a Manchester-based agency founded by Peter Taylor, an operative with more than 40 years experience as a private detective. London offices opened soon afterwards, acting as […]

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TV Detective Hired in Giraffe Case

A private detective has been enlisted to look into the death of two giraffes at a Polish zoo. The female giraffes died from stress-related illnesses following  a break in at Lodz Zoo, in which vandals hurled benches and bins into their enclosure, according to the BBC. One giraffe died of a heart attack just hours […]

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