Ken Gamble

How do I do that, you know?

And he said, look, I'll make a phone call for you.

I'll ring up the company I used to work with, Webster's.

It was the biggest private detective agency in Australia at that time.

and they had big contracts with insurance companies and all this sort of stuff.

So he did.

He made a phone call, and I subsequently packed up.

I had a Ford Cortina, and when I hit Sydney, I actually started working in a photo lab developing photographs for a couple of months while I waited for the opportunity to get this interview with Webster's.

And in April, finally in April 88, the interview came, and they gave me the job as a trainee.

What kind of cases did you start working on?

They had a big contract with GIO, Government Insurance Office, doing workers' compensation claims and third-party injury claims.

It was all back in the days when there were so many people claiming compensation from personal injuries.

So they got this big contract to spy on people that had work cover claims in.

So I was trained in surveillance.

So they needed people to go out and spy on people.

So I started learning covert surveillance and I was out day one.

I went out in the back of a van with a guy called Kurt who was one of the most senior guys in the company.

He took me out and after about a week he said, look, I think you're ready to do your own stuff.

You know, I could drive very well.

I was used to camouflage and concealment from the army and I was used to taking risks and