Stalker Investigations

Stalking/Stalker is defined as:

“Unwanted or obsessive attention or surveillance towards a person or a group”

And it can be enormously distressing for a person who believes they are being stalked.

Stalking is linked to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them.

In May 2012, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 created the offence of stalking for the first time in England/Wales by inserting these offences into the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.

In more extreme circumstances, it falls to the person being stalked to do something about this themselves and at Insight we have first-hand experience of helping victims of stalking.

One of our undercover team was responsible for conducting a background search and tracking down the stalker of Dr Alison Hewitt in 2010. This helped local police apprehend the stalker before he could commit the crime. Without our intervention, the story might have had a very different outcome. Read the story here:

This case was featured in Dispatches on Channel 4 on 22nd November 2012 and our Private Investigator, shown in the programme as Elliott Jackson, was instrumental in helping apprehend the perpetrator and bring him to justice.

The programme synopsis is as follows:

When busy trainee doctor Alison Hewitt joined a dating agency in 2010, she had no idea that her actions would set in motion a terrifying chain of events that would threaten the lives of her and her family.

She thought the man she was meeting was a respectable Canadian businessman living in London called Al Amin Dhalla. At first their relationship blossomed, but soon Alison’s mother Pam grew suspicious of the man who seemed to harbour many dark secrets.

Pam turned Miss Marple, hired a private investigator to find out more and soon realised that Dhalla’s entire life story was based on lies. It was only when Alison finished the relationship however that the real Dhalla emerged.

The family soon found out that Dhalla – classed as a narcissistic psychopath – would stop at nothing to win Alison back.

Starting with poison pen letters, his campaign of terror soon escalated to arson, building a mobile torture chamber in his van, and eventually hiring a hit man – all while tracking Alison and her family’s every move.

Five different police forces became engaged in a cat and mouse chase that saw them constantly one step behind Dhalla as he sought revenge for what he saw as the ultimate betrayal.

This is a true life crime committed in middle England, but with the plot of a Hollywood thriller.

Through exclusive access to Alison, her family and the officers involved – who say they narrowly prevented a triple murder – plus police surveillance and CCTV footage, this nail-biting film tells the frightening story of what could happen if there’s a stalker at the heart of your family.

This case was also reported on in the Crime & Investigation Channel on Sky, with our Director, Tony Smith receiving praise for his work on the case.