Martin Kayes is an investigative journalist and also works as a private investigator, he comes from a long background in cyber security and investigating cyber crime. Martin holds the industry-leading accreditation of Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and over the last ten years or so has broadened the scope of his work to include private and criminal investigations. Martin works on high-profile murder cases, missing persons, crimes against children, celebrity stalking and harassment cases as well as continuing to investigate scammers and online fraudsters.
Martin also works with television producers and media companies to appear in their programmes as a subject matter expert, to advise as a crime consultant, to trace and locate suspects and witnesses and to research evidence supporting the claims being made in the programme or film.
He has appeared on several television programmes including Paramount’s and Channel 5’s “Madeleine McCann: The case against Christian B”, “Love Rats, Series 2” on Netflix, as well as ITV’s “This Morning”. Martin’s work has been featured worldwide in multiple newspaper articles and television programmes, some examples of which are shown below.
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Martin has in-depth knowledge some of the largest criminal cases in recent years, including having gained access to new witnesses, witness statements, confidential police files and previously unreleased evidence. Some example of cases include; Missing – Jay Slater, Missing – Nicola Bulley, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the evidence around the main suspect in the McCann case ‘Christian B’, Michael Stone and the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, the murder of teenager Lee Boxell and multiple unsolved murders possibly linked to serial killers such as Levi Bellfield and Peter Tobin.
In addition, Martin has studied various fields of forensics, geographical profiling and human trafficking, gaining, as required, any new knowledge required for the cases that he works on. Martin holds firearms certifications to both British Police ACPO and LAPD standards, as well as having studied, hands-on, firearms forensics.