You’ll never guess my job… i’m a crime-scene cleaner!

BEHIND THE BIG CRIME

I’ve lived in fear of Dad’s mystery killer for decades. Now it’s their turn to be scared

In his long career running one of Britain’s most successful specialist cleaning companies, Ben Giles has had to deal with every kind of mess: blood-spattered murder scenes, caked-on snot, even decomposing whales. He shares his secrets with Tom Lamont

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Dim the lights, turn off your phones and get your coughing out of the way – because the performance is about to begin. Performance cleaning, that is. The kind you do when people are coming to visit an