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This is a special episode of Manhand, Finding Kevin Parle.

Right Peter, we've come to a park right in the centre of London.

London church on our right and as you can probably hear an awful lot of birds.

I know you wanted to have a catch up conversation Peter, off you go.

Well, I've called you here in the central London day because I didn't see you for a couple of weeks and I think we need to put the podcast on hold to be perfect here.

Okay. There's a lot going on in terms of the investigation, for example.

I'm speaking this evening to the trustees from a charity. I can't explain why it's just yet.

But if they're in agreement very soon I'm going to be launching something that has simply never been done before by a member of the public in regards to trying to hunt a fugitive.

Next week, I'm speaking to somebody from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, finally, because it's been a bit of a delay on that.

Open source inquiries are continuing. There are some frustrations because the people that are of particular interest don't appear to have properties registered to them.

So specific addresses. I could go and knock on the doors off, but that's all in hand.

Just on that subject, sorry, Peter, open source. Have you recruited, well, at least a couple of people have joined your team, haven't they recently?

Yeah, I mean, the joyous thing is, these people continue to volunteer and a very capable young man with specialisms in other areas of the internet.

Which again, please accept my apology listeners, but what he is going to do, I've got to keep firmly under my hat, but it is related to the internet.

I've now got an in-country operative who's volunteered to help in Dubai.

So there's a lot going on, but the pressure of China turnout, the content for the pilot, would just be a bit too burdensome at the moment, and I really need to call it a halt, just a temporary halt.

So I can actually get on with the nuts and bolts and try to find it.

Okay, I think that's fair enough. While we're here, tell me a little bit about the phenomenal reaction you had to the Dubai episode.

Yeah, a reaction like none other. No other episode got anywhere near to provoke the reaction that that did, and it wasn't all great, I've got to tell you.

I'd clearly upset a number of people, one person I suspect in particular with that episode, because there was then a campaign launched to essentially render my burner phone unusable, because it was ringing constantly, and I mean 24 hours a day.

Rather cleverly, begrudging credit where it's due, somebody took the number of the burner and posted it on the internet, along with ridiculously cheap quotes for materials or work to be done.

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