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Glasgow

Glasgow Background Checks

A widowed father contacted us to hire a private investigator in Glasgow. Admitting that he might be overprotective, he worried about his daughter's new boyfriend. She was 17-years old and the man in question was 23. He felt she was too young to being going out with someone that old but did not want to try to dissuade her without a good reason beyond the age difference. He told our private investigator that he met the boyfriend when he had him over for dinner. The boyfriend did not share much information about his background and his daughter was also quiet on the subject. The boyfriend said that he was a mechanic at a local garage but that was all the information the father had beyond the man's name. He asked if our private detective could do a background check on the man. He also sanctioned using surveillance if it was a necessary measure for our private investigator to take to get more information on the boyfriend. All he had for us to go on was the man's name, a picture of him and his daughter at a dinner at his house that he took with his cell phone and the name of the garage where he worked. The father was a well-known area business leader and active in local government, so our private investigator in Glasgow, UK needed to assure him of our standard of confidentiality.

Background Checks in Glasgow

One of our private investigators took a car into the garage to have its oil changed. After not seeing the boyfriend on the property, he told his mechanic that he had heard that someone he knew worked there and asked if he was around. The mechanic told the private detective the man had not worked there in what he guessed was about nine months. Our private detective investigator conducted a record check to see if he could find an address for the man. He not only found an address. He also found a marriage licence, a birth certificate listing him as the father of a boy, and a local newspaper record of arrest for burglary. Four years prior, he was carrying electronics from a neighbour's house and served a short time in prison. He had left school at 16 years old and had no formal training in anything although he did work a year and a half at the garage. Our private investigator assembled the information into a report and presented it the father.

The facts from our private investigator confirming the father's misgivings about the new boyfriend disappointed the father who confronted the daughter with the information. That his daughter was fully aware of these facts further disappointed the father. But despite all the disappointment, the father felt he was in a better position to deal with the daughter knowing the truth. The daughter insisted that her boyfriend had separated from his wife but remained a good father to his son. After further surveillance, our private detectives discovered the man was still living in the house with his wife. This did surprise the daughter who thought he had been staying with friends who didn't allow him to have guests in the house. With this information, the man's daughter ended her romance with the older man. The father was grateful to Detective Agency Glasgow for the background check that not only had provided him with the information he needed, but, eventually, also resolved the problem.