Criminal Patterns of Behaviour   One of the first lessons you learn as an investigator is that when people do the wrong thing, their actions are normally part of a pattern of behaviour. Some years ago, Lyonswood was contacted by a woman who wanted us to investigate an ex-partner of hers. Clearly a sociopath, the […]

CORONAVIRUS & BIOMETRICS DATA   Biometrics are human characteristics that help us identify individuals and gain information about human physiology. Some common examples of biometric identifiers are things like fingerprints, facial patterns and heat signatures. Governments and businesses have begun to use biometrics for a range of purposes and there is great scope for the use of such data in […]

The Case of William Tyrrell: An Investigator’s Perspective   The Background On the 11th of September 2014, William Tyrrell, in the company of his foster parents and his older sister, journeyed from Sydney to Kendall, NSW. The purpose of the visit was to see William’s foster grandmother, whose house sat directly across from the Kendall […]

The digital age has brought about rapid developments in information technologies. Paramount among these technologies is the internet, which has made communication more efficient than ever before. Cyber law is a relatively new area of the legal system that governs the complex way that individuals and businesses use the internet. Regulation of online conduct is […]

Bill Spedding & the William Tyrrell Case For one reason or another, it can become necessary to prove whether a person was or wasn’t at a particular location at a certain point in time. For example, one may need to show whether a person could have physically been responsible for a criminal act or some […]

Only by reference to what is known can one make sense of the unknown. – Lachlan Jarvis, director of Lyonswood Investigations When a client approaches a private investigator to conduct a period of surveillance, it’s not like hiring a plumber, getting a car serviced or having an accountant do your tax return. It is something […]

How the Modern Private Investigator Came to Be What comes to mind when ‘private investigator’ is mentioned? Is it the image of a guy in a dimly lit room, solving mysteries while puffing away on a cigarette in a beige trench coat? What if I told you that the private detective existed several decades before […]