Mayfayre
Mayfayre Associates was private security company created by Alec Leighton and Keith Lindsay Hunter, two former Metropolitan police officers who would be caught up in various scandals. Hunter would be come best known for ISC Global and RISC Management, working with Nigel Brown, while Leighton would subsequently found Charterhouse Investigations.
Company details
Company Names & Number | Addresses | Incorporation & Dissolution | Directors & Shareholders | Notes |
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Mayfayre Associates Ltd (03158724)[1][2]
Name changed from Mayfayre Security Services Ltd (18 Sept 1996). |
Suite 2, Charter House, 26 Claremont Road, Surbiton, KT6 4RD. | 14 February 1996
Accounts filed up to 1997; liquidator appointed 1998; struck off and dissolved 2001. |
Alec Steven Leighton (24 Aug 1996 - end) Keith Lindsay Hunter (14 Feb 1997 - end) Joanne Rose Scrimshaw (14 Feb 1996 - end) |
Address changed to 4 Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6EN on 15 September 1998, and was followed by a resolution to wind up the firm and the appointment of a liquidator. Charterhouse Investigations was the name of a later company run by Leighton. |
Mayfayre Security Services Ltd (03024462)[3][4]
Changed name from Mayfayre Associates on 18 Sept 1996. |
Originally registered to 152 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX; on 19 Dec 1995 it changed to Ainslee Court, 11 Queensgate, Kensington, London, SW7 5EL, and then on 12 Feb 1996 to Mayfayre House, Shepherd Street, Mayfair, London, W1Y 7LJ. | 21 February 1995
Voluntary winding up & appointing of liquidator 1997. |
Keith Lindsay Hunter (21 Feb 1995 - 1 Jan 1996) Ian Joyes (24 July 1995 - 18 Mar 1996) Brian Wiggins (1 Feb 1996 - 31 Dec 1996) Joanne Rose Scrimshaw (18 Mar 1996 - 26 Feb 1996) Alec Steven Leighton (24 Aug 1996 - end) John Campbell (26 Feb 1997 - end) |
Address changed to 4 Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6EN on 12 May 1997. |
Mayfayre Executive Recruitment Ltd (03097073)[5][6] | Mayfayre House, Shepherd Street, London, W1Y 7LJ. | 31 Aug 1995
Dissolved 19 Aug 1997 |
Pamela Lesley Leighton (31 Aug 1995 - end) Ian Joyes (31 Aug 1995 - 2 Mar 1996) Alec Steven Leighton (28 Jan 1997 - end) Joanne Rose Scrimshaw (28 Jan 1997 - end) |
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Charterhouse Investigations Ltd (03577542)[7][8]
Originally called Mayfayre Associates (UK) Ltd until 21 September 1999 |
147 Elgar Avenue Surbiton Surrey KT5 9JX |
8 June 1998
Goes dormant in 2003 and is dissovlved in 2005. |
Alec Steven Leighton (8 June 1998 - 30 Oct 1998; 1 Mar 2001 - end) Kenneth Beever (8 June 1998 - 28 Feb 2001) Janet Beever (30 Oct 1998 - 28 Feb 2001) Stephen John Clarke (1 Aug 2001 - 30 Oct 2002) Pamela Lesley Leighton (14 Mar 2003 - end) |
Original registered office given as Suite 17, City Business Centre, Lower Road, London, SE16 1AA, the address of JPCord Ltd, a chartered accountancy / company registration firm. |
Short Director Biographies
- Brian Wiggins: born 1951, he is a former Met detective constable who ran the Reading based Alliance International Detective Agency in 1986, when he was instrumental in the arrest of an escaped prisoner, Joseph Hanson.[9][10]
- John Campbell: born 1955, he is described as a Security Manager;[11] he is also a director of Sintrax Services Ltd (1992 he was a founding director along with Stephanie Gail Campbell; since dissolved)[12] and Mobell Ltd.[13]
- Joanne Rose Scrimshaw: born 1959, a self-employed book-keeper / accountant with Woking based Parkview Book-keeping.[14]
- Ian Joyes: born 1959, he was also a director of Metshield Executive Recruitment Ltd 18 March to 17 July 1995.[15]. Metshield was part of the Metropolitan Personal Security Services group of companies run by Stephen John Clarke, who would be subsequently a director of another Alec Leighton company, Charterhouse Investigations.
- Kenneth Beever: born 1944; a security consultant; registered address is 11 Moorfield, Mill Road, Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 4NZ; director of Moorfields Management Ltd from 11 Nov 1999 to 1 Sept 2002.[16][17] In 1986, he had been police officer of 22 years, and was a Detective Sergeant working Fraud related a cases in Richmond for the Metropolitan police; there, with his partner DC Terry (Terence) Wright, he became involved with the investigation into the US murder of the Haysom family. Previously had served in the central drug squad and at Heathrow Airport.[18]
- Janet Beever: born 1948, she is registered to the same address as Kenneth Beever, and does not appear elsewhere.[19]
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Notes
- ↑ MAYFAYRE ASSOCIATES LIMITED, CompanyCheck.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ MAYFAYRE ASSOCIATES LIMITED, CompaniesList.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ MAYFAYRE SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED, CompanyCheck.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ MAYFAYRE SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED, CompaniesList.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ MAYFAYRE EXECUTIVE RECRUITMENT LIMITED, CompanyCheck.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ MAYFAYRE EXECUTIVE RECRUITMENT LIMITED, CompaniesList.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ http://companycheck.co.uk/company/03577542/CHARTERHOUSE-INVESTIGATIONS-LIMITED Charterhouse Investigations Ltd], CompanyCheck.co.uk, undated (accessed 26 August 2015).
- ↑ Charterhouse Investigations Ltd, CompaniesList.co.uk, undated (accessed 26 August 2015).
- ↑ Private Detective Wiggins apprehends criminal; Brian Wiggins Interview, British Universities Film & Video Council, undated (accessed 24 August 2015).
- ↑ Citizen's arrest in Hanson case, Glasgow Herald, 20 August 1986 (accessed 24 August 2015).
- ↑ John Campbell, CompaniesList.co.uk, undated (accessed 17 August 2015).
- ↑ Sintrax Services Ltd, CompanyCheck.co.uk undated (accessed 24 August 2015)
- ↑ Mobell Ltd, CompanyCheck.co.uk undated, (accessed 24 August 2015). Campbell was a business partner of Joseph Moynes, a builder / plumber who ran other businesses using the Mobell name.
- ↑ Joanne Archer, Profile, LinkedIn.com, undated (accessed 24 August 2015).
- ↑ Ian JoyesCompanyCheck.co.uk undated (accessed 24 August 2015)
- ↑ Kenneth Beever, CompanyCheck.co.uk, undated (accessed 26 August 2015).
- ↑ Kenneth Beever, CompanyDirectorCheck.com, undated (accessed 26 August 2015).
- ↑ Ken Englade, Beyond Reason, Macmillan, 2011. See also Jens Soering, Mortal Thoughts, 1995 (published online only).
- ↑ Janet Beever, CompanyCheck.co.uk, undated (accessed 26 August 2015).