It isn’t as easy as it looks, being rich. Once money worries dissipate, safety concerns take over. That’s why the wealthy are going to ever greater lengths to protect themselves from career criminals out to burgle their homes.
“At an insurance seminar I went to recently, they said that glossy magazines like Hello! were the most subscribed-to magazines in UK prisons — and I don’t think it’s because they can’t get hold of the Love Island gossip,” says Simon Giddins, managing director of Blackstone Consultancy, a private intelligence and security firm that stakes out potential threats around the homes of high-net-worth individuals. A former military man who left to work for Falklands veteran Tim Spicer, he offers a preliminary consultation with his team from £1,500.
