19 Aug 2013

Girl, seven, filmed undressing on beach by insurance private detectives

By 07:44
This image from the surveillance footage shows Joanna Hill and her seven-year-old daughter Felicity


Private detectives hired by an insurance company filmed a seven-year-old girl getting undressed on a beach during an investigation of her disabled mother’s compensation claim.
Joanna Hill, a marketing executive and mother-of-four was left in a wheelchair and in constant pain after her leg was crushed in a car accident seven years ago.

Lawyers for Churchill hired a surveillance firm to check whether her injuries were as bad as suggested. The firm, the Cotswold Group, secretly filmed not only her but her friends and children, including when the youngsters were in the grounds of their private school, a Sunday newspaper reported.

Mrs Hill, 43, is furious at the use of covert techniques to film her family. She fears tracking devices may have been fitted to the family car to help the investigators follow them.

She told The Sunday Times: ‘We were disgusted when we found out they had filmed the children. The children were upset and for a long time afterwards they were very nervous about changing on the beach. They are still very self-conscious and worried about being followed and filmed. It’s devastating once you know people are snooping.’

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