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Thinking of playing away? These are the tell-tale clues that could end up exposing your naughty behaviour<\/p>\n
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1 in 5 Brits are cheating – but they won’t always get away with it!<\/p>\n
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Alix Harris came to the world of private investigation late in life \u2013 nine years ago she turned 40 and decided to ditch the corporate world and retrain as a private investigator. Her inspiration? Miss Marple! She used to love watching Agatha Christie films on cold winter evenings with her daughter.
When she started out, she bought a bike and her daughter bought her a tweed cycling helmet to stick with the Marple theme! But she quickly discovered that the life of a private detective often falls into seedy territory \u2013 with adulterers her prime suspects.
And with a survey by YouGov revealing that one in five British adults admit to having had an extra-marital affair, it\u2019s no wonder Alix is so busy!
\u201cMy first case was an adultery one but I didn\u2019t cover myself in glory. I was inexperienced and trailing him far too closely. We ended up in a ludicrous situation where he was walking round, with me following him, then he changed direction and I did too. He was clearly on to me. It was like a Benny Hill sketch.
\u201cBut I learnt from that very quickly. I completely left the case for two weeks and then went back to it, keeping my distance. A week after that I caught him with the other woman \u2013 tailing him from a distance and seeing him walk into a pub with her, hand in hand. I took pictures with a long lens camera and showed them to his wife.<\/p>\n
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A quiet drink in a country pub provides damning evidence<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was a relief for her \u2013 she knew that something was up, he was following the common script of an adulterer, gaslighting her and saying she was paranoid. I\u2019ve never had a client come to me suspecting adultery who has been wrong \u2013 they\u2019ve been right in 100% of cases. So if your gut is telling you something is up to the extent you\u2019re planning on hiring someone like me \u2013 at the cost of \u00a3100 an hour – I\u2019m afraid to tell you you\u2019re probably right. The split is 50\/50 with men and women.
\u201cI remember one man coming to me and we had a preliminary meeting. He told me all the signs \u2013 they were the typical ones, \u2018working\u2019 late, losing interest in sex and causing rows so she would leave the house to \u2018calm down\u2019 – in reality going to meet her \u00a0lover. Those signs are the usual ones. But I did once have a woman whose husband had displayed none of those signs. But she\u2019d been to her his work Christmas party and seen him reach into a female colleague\u2019s breast pocket on her denim jacket and help himself to one of her cigarettes. It was such an intimate gesture that she was sure something was going on. Sadly she was right.<\/p>\n
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Cheaters won’t realise just how many clues they are leaving behind<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe average time it takes to catch someone committing adultery is four days. It\u2019s easiest if someone has a 9 to 5 office job and a regular routine. They will usually meet up with their lover straight from work so I tail them in my car if they\u2019re driving or use my bike. I\u2019ve spent many an evening sitting in a bar or waiting in a hotel lobby. It always surprises me how cavalier people are. I never understand why they don\u2019t go up to a hotel room in separate lifts so there\u2019s at least an element of deniability \u00a0– or why they make public displays of affection. But it makes my life much easier. They become complacent and forget to be careful.
\u201cSometimes the cases are more complicated \u2013 on those occasions I think outside the box. I remember a wife being convinced her husband was playing away, bringing his mistress to the marital home while she was at work. So I created a poster of a missing cat \u2013 using photos of my own cat. Then I went knocking on doors on his street, knocked on his door and said I\u2019d been told my cat had been seen in his garden and asked if I could go through to have a look. Sure enough there was his mistress in the kitchen making herself a cup of tea. I discreetly took a photo through the open garden door.<\/p>\n
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Gotcha! Like to see you try talking your way out of this one<\/p>\n
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\u201cAnother time I bought a dog lead and knocked on a potential adulterer\u2019s door late at night and asked if he\u2019d seen \u2018my lost dog\u2019. I don\u2019t even have a dog! But sure enough he answered the door and called upstairs to the other woman to ask if she\u2019d seen it. That was proof enough for his \u2018real\u2019 girlfriend to see the light and kick him into touch.
\u201cI\u2019m fortunate in that I\u2019ve never had an angry adulterer confront me for finding them out. But I did have one experience which was alarming. A man came to me and asked me to track down his fianc\u00e9e, saying he just wanted to get back the engagement ring as it was a family heirloom. Something felt off with him, so I turned down the case \u2013 I always rely on my instincts. I was later contacted by the police after they went through his phone records. It turned out he wanted to find her so he could hire a hitman to shoot her. Fortunately, he was caught as the hitman he tried to hire was actually an undercover policeman. That woman definitely had a lucky escape!<\/p>\n
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How did she know you were cheating? It was elementary, my dear!<\/p>\n
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\u201cI love my work \u2013 which might sound odd as I\u2019m constantly delivering bad news. But I don\u2019t think of it like that. People who are cheated on are often relieved just to know the truth after being constantly lied to and told they\u2019re going mad. I feel I\u2019m giving them the knowledge to help them move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
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