Ultima Cleaning, based in Cardigan, Wales, cleans up a range of crime scenes after officials are done with investigations.
Boss Ben Giles, 43, saw a gap in the market 20 years ago, as families are often left to clean up once their loved ones have died.
He said: "It's often just left to the family to clean up the house once those who have died or injured have been removed, which given the sensitive circumstances, could be an impossible task.
“There are some call outs that are really sensitive, such as when a child has been mauled by a dog.
“There was property with a hoarder inside that needed the fire brigade to break into it because there was no space to get in.
“We had to dig down through his stuff until we found the decomposing body, which the police removed."
'SENSITIVE CALLOUTS'
After deciding become a crime-scene cleaner, Ben contacted local police forces, funeral homes, morgues, solicitors and undertakers to offer their services.
In one of his first jobs, a solicitor asked him to clean up a house in which a man had died in London.
Ben said: “The deceased man’s dog had eaten part of his face and leg, he was found already decomposing.
“He was a big guy, so his body fat had seeped through his floor boards before the body had moved.”
BOOMING BUSINESS
Despite being a niche cleaning service, Ben says business has never been busier for him and his 70 employees, with a network of over 900.
The company rapidly grew with increasing jobs coming their way but they were sporadic and all over the country.
Ben decided that he didn’t want to spend all of his time in hotels and designed his own accredited training program to teach other cleaners how to clean crime scenes called the National Academy of Crime Scene Cleaners which Ben has developed into Ultima Environmental.
Ben says that after nearly two decades of cleaning properties that he is still intrigued by what's happened to the individuals involved.
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