Investigations • Intelligence • Litigation Support
Finding the hidden storyline—and the route to the result.
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Investigations • Intelligence • Litigation Support
Finding the hidden storyline—and the route to the result.
Discuss an Enquiry Explore Our ServicesMARA Intelligence is a London-based private investigation and intelligence company working for lawyers, journalists, documentary makers, businesses, organisations, private companies, private individuals and high-net-worth clients.
We are brought into matters where something does not fit.
The official account may be incomplete. Evidence may exist without anybody seeing the storyline that connects it. A vital witness may never have been approached. A person, payment, document, asset or relationship may have been deliberately concealed.
Sometimes several people have already searched.
What is missing is not effort.
It is the route.
MARA finds the fracture in the visible account, follows the strongest available line of enquiry and retrieves something usable: evidence, intelligence, a witness, a connection, a verified lead or a clear understanding of what can and cannot be proved.
Investigative research, litigation support, witness enquiries, background intelligence, evidence development and the identification of hidden connections within complex matters.
Deep research, human-source enquiries, verification, tracing, source development, witness location and investigative support for live stories and long-term productions.
Due diligence, corporate intelligence, reputational enquiries, internal concerns, disputed accounts and sensitive investigations requiring discretion.
Missing people, concealed relationships, fraud, disputed histories, private concerns, tracing and situations in which the visible explanation does not make sense.
You may have documents but no clear storyline.
You may know that the account you have been given is false but have no idea how to penetrate it.
Your investigation may have stalled because obvious searches have produced nothing new.
A witness, payment, relationship, company, location, asset or piece of evidence may be missing from the accepted account.
MARA Intelligence examines what is present, what is absent and where the story begins to fracture.
We do not simply accumulate more information. Information without structure becomes another form of fog.
We ask:
What is missing?
What is being protected?
Where does the chronology break?
Who benefits from the visible account?
Which person has been treated as peripheral but may actually be central?
Where would the missing evidence have had to travel?
We follow those questions until the submerged structure begins to emerge.
Investigation, intelligence and litigation support across the following areas...
Investigative research and support for newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, documentary producers, podcasts and publishers in Britain and internationally.
Identifying, approaching and developing people who may possess knowledge unavailable through ordinary records or database searches.
Open-source intelligence, public-record research, company and individual profiling, chronology development and the verification of online claims.
Evidence development, witness and background enquiries, chronology testing, source work and investigative support for lawyers and legal teams.
Difficult, long-running or unusual matters where conventional approaches have failed to produce clarity.
UK and international investigations supported by trusted journalistic contacts, experienced investigators, human sources and established professional relationships.
Research and human-source enquiries for newspapers, broadcasters, documentary makers and production companies requiring serious investigative depth.
Due diligence, reputational enquiries, competitor and relationship mapping, disputed business accounts and intelligence concerning individuals or organisations.
Confidential enquiries for private individuals and high-net-worth clients involving people, relationships, events, assets, fraud, disappearance or obscured histories.
Locating people, witnesses, former colleagues, family members, companies, assets and other missing elements required to move an enquiry forward.
Deep research designed to identify the pattern, person, relationship or fact hidden beneath the visible account.
Testing claims, gathering witness and photographic evidence, identifying inconsistencies and establishing what can be independently supported.
Many investigators can search what is already visible.
MARA exists for the story beneath it.
Our work combines more than thirty years of investigative experience with human-source intelligence, psychological perception, imagination and disciplined pattern recognition.
We recognise where an official story has ceased to be seamless.
It may be a break in the chronology, an unexplained payment, a witness placed at the edge of the account, a sudden change in somebody’s language or a connection that has been dismissed as irrelevant.
That fracture is often the entrance.
MARA follows the route beneath the accepted account and tests what is found against documents, sources, records, chronology and corroboration.
We do not promise that every suspicion will be confirmed.
A responsible investigation must be capable of disproving an attractive theory as well as proving a hidden truth.
The result must be usable. It may become evidence, intelligence, a verified lead, a new line of enquiry, a resolved contradiction or a defensible conclusion about what can and cannot be established.
Locate the contradiction, omission, person or detail where the visible account fails to hold.
Follow the human, documentary, financial and digital connections leading beneath the accepted story.
Find the witness, evidence, relationship, location, asset or intelligence that the system has excluded.
Distinguish evidence from allegation, signal from noise and genuine discovery from attractive coincidence.
Produce material capable of informing a legal case, media investigation, commercial decision or private understanding.
Founder and Director, MARA Intelligence
Christine Joanna Hart is a Sunday Times bestselling author, investigative journalist and private investigator with more than thirty years of experience entering difficult stories and finding the route others have missed.
Her career includes approximately twenty-five years across Fleet Street journalism and investigations, with work involving the Sunday Times and Daily Mail.
She has investigated terrorism, paramilitary and criminal networks, serious offenders, disputed public accounts, missing people and property, concealed assets, valuable works of art, insurance fraud and complex private matters.
Her particular ability is recognising where a story fractures. She listens for the unusual word, missing step, altered tone, overlooked person or apparently irrelevant detail that may reveal the entrance into a sealed system.
Every enquiry begins with the question beneath the question:
What do you need to know—and what is preventing the answer from being found?
MARA Intelligence handles each matter according to its actual seriousness rather than the public status of the person bringing it. A private client trapped inside a baffling situation may need the same ingenuity, discretion and determination as a national newspaper, legal team or international organisation.
We will listen to what has happened, identify the immediate investigative question and consider whether there is a responsible and proportionate route forward. If we can help, we will explain the proposed scope of work. If the available evidence cannot support the suspected account, that must also be said.
It is the answer.
What is buried never disappears. It leaves a trace. Our work is to find that trace, understand the system surrounding it and return with something real.
Telephone: 07702 211930
Mara Intelligence Ltd
45 Fitzroy Street
Fitzrovia
London
W1T 6EB
United Kingdom
Mobile: 07702 211930
Christine Joanna Hart has worked for more than thirty-five years across private investigation, intelligence gathering, Fleet Street journalism and complex investigative research.
Research tools are useful. They are not the investigation. Finding the pattern others miss.
Investigative journalism, HUMINT, OSINT, litigation support, complex investigations, case review, due diligence, tracing and crisis intelligence.
