An ordinary suburban street in Brentwood, Essex. In the distance, the sound of a power tool can be heard. I walk up the driveway, past a white van, and press the doorbell.
After some time, the door opens. Maureen, a striking lady in her sixties with a platinum bob and bubbly Essex accent, ushers me into the sitting room, and offers me a cup of tea. Her husband, James, a big, affable man, gets up from a floral armchair and shakes me genially by the hand. Maureen regards me coolly.
Scotland Yard has launched an investigation after The Mail on Sunday last week revealed detectives have been accused by a whistleblower of plotting with private investigators to hack a Government Minister’s emails and mobile phone.
The internal probe began last week following the revelation that the informant told the Yard almost a year ago of the alleged plan to intercept the private communications of Lord Malloch-Brown when he was a Foreign Office Minister.
The private investigators accused of involvement strenuously deny it.
A Scotland Yard anti-corruption officer was arrested today on suspicion of taking bribes from private investigators.
Two private investigators - who both previously served with the force - are also being held after raids at the London offices of Risc Management Ltd, it is understood.
The 45-year-old detective constable is being questioned on suspicion of providing information about Nigerian fraudster James Ibori in return for cash.
Almost 1,000 DWP staff were disciplined in a 10-month period for unlawfully or inappropriately accessing social security records, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information laws.
Meanwhile, over the past year there were at least 13 cases per month of unlawful access to medical records reported to the Department of Health (DoH).
Scotland Yard today sensationally announced that missing Madeleine McCann could still be alive.
Detectives carrying out a review of the case said they believed there was evidence to suggest she could have been snatched by a criminal gang or abducted by a stranger.
They have identified 195 leads and uncovered new evidence in the case.
Police announced the dramatic twist as they released a striking image of the missing girl as she might appear today as a nine year old.
The picture shows a smiling, pretty young girl which could be a proud school photo.
A FRAUDSTER tried to have his mother-in-law murdered because he believed she took his wife and children from him.
While awaiting trial for mortgage frauds worth more than half a million pounds, Bhupinder Dhesi met an undercover police officer in Greenhithe to arrange the killing of his wife’s mum.
He also asked a private detective to find two witnesses to provide false testimony at his fraud trial.
The 36-year-old, of Lennox Road in Gravesend, was jailed for 11 years at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday (April 12).
What happened to Jamie Laiaddee? In the age of ubiquitous security cameras and digital devices that track our every move, how does a 34-year-old Phoenix, Arizona woman simply disappear?
And how does a person who has friends and family go missing for 10 weeks without anyone noticing and sounding the alarm? Jamie Laiaddee's story is, in many ways, a cautionary tale for the 21st Century young woman living in a high tech world who thinks she can recognize danger and steer clear of it.
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