article_snippet: Mrs Clayton would not meet our reporter in person because, Mrs Clayton said, Mrs Clayton was out of the country.
article_snippet: Mrs Clayton sold 3,000 of these records to an undercover reporter with no checks on the Mail’s supposed firm.
article_snippet: Had Mrs Clayton done any due diligence Mrs Clayton would have found that it was not a registered or regulated company at all.
article_snippet: Later it emerged that Mrs Clayton had no idea whatsoever where the data had come from.
article_snippet: B2C Data insisted B2C Data had not provided these records.
article_snippet: When confronted with the Mail’s evidence, Mrs Clayton denied any wrongdoing.