Last March, a BBC Panorama programme alleged that a senior News of the World executive obtained emails hacked into by a private detective.
The same year a private detective working for the Needham family examined claims that local police did not investigate the case properly at the time.
Now in her 22nd year as a private detective, she's noticed the hurricane churned up all sorts of untidy situations in which her skills are helpful.
Bankinter, a Spanish bank, developed data-mining techniques to such an extent that it has been able to set up a useful business as a private detective agency for suspicious spouses.
He was told that the paper had employed a private detective, who in turn employed a "specialist hacker" who had worked with Mr Hurst in the intelligence services for three years.
In 2009, Mr. Anwar presented to reporters a private detective, Balasubramaniam Perumal, who declared in a signed statement that Mr. Najib had a sexual relationship with a Mongolian model and translator, Altantuya Shaariibuu.
The Welles in question, played by Nicolas Cage, is a private detective who is asked to watch a snuff movie and to find out just how snuffy it is whether a young woman was actually killed onscreen.
Even James Murdoch admitted, in evidence to MPs, that last week's revelation that his company had hired a private detective to spy on lawyers representing the victims of phone-hacking and their families was "appalling" and "unacceptable".
Such is the obscurity of Softbank's tax arrangements, its corporate structure and the prospects of its investments that, to gain even a partial view of the firm's true value, you need to be a trained accountant, a stockmarket analyst and a private detective rolled into one.
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Samantha Rigg-David, the sister of Sean Rigg, a 40-year-old man who died in police custody in 2008 in Brixton, and Alastair Morgan, whose brother Daniel - a private detective - was found with an axe in his head in a south London pub's car park in 1987, took part in the demonstration.
With the police as yet having contacted only the tiniest fraction of the thousands of people whose phones may have been hacked by a private detective in the employ of the News of the World, it is probable that there will be week after week of new shocking disclosures about the privacy of individuals being invade improperly.
What Steve Hewlett pointed out this morning on the Today programme is that there is an important difference between Mr Coulson and Ms Brooks, which is that he resigned from News International all those years ago after the original revelations about how a private detective, Glen Mulcaire, used illicit techniques to obtain private information about prominent individuals.
He even hired a private-detective firm to track down her assets in America.
My then husband, a detective chief superintendent, appeared on "Crimewatch" to appeal for information in the unsolved 1987 murder of private detective Daniel Morgan, whose business partner Jonathan Rees was alleged to have supplied News of the World's parent company News International with illegally obtained information.
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