Peter is a world-leading confined space rescue and forensic search specialist. Peter started his career at the age of five exploring disused mines and caves with his father John. Peter became highly skilled in tunnelling and shoring techniques, By the 1990’s Peter was using his confined space skills learnt from an early age to train the London Fire Brigade specialist rescue teams and the United Kingdom’s Search & Rescue Teams (UKSART) in collapsed structure shoring and specialist rescue techniques.
Peter went through the tough selection course for the 10th Volunteer Battalion, Parachute Regiment and earned the coveted Maroon Beret and qualified as a military parachutist and served for six years.
In 1996 he was tasked by the authorities to search and safely remove environmental protesters from manmade tunnels under the proposed route of the Newbury Bypass. In 1997 he removed the infamous anti roads protester Swampy from a network of tunnels under the proposed route of the A30 Honiton Bypass. Since then Peter and his team from Specialist Group International have safely carried out all the major protester removal operations both on land and at sea with a 100% safety record. Peter was a key adviser to