Brought up in a single-parent family, Richard Martinez joined the Air Training Corps at 13. By 20 he had achieved the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award, an advanced gliding certificate, an RAF flying scholarship, a powered private pilot's licence and had been awarded Runner-up Best Air Cadet in the UK. He had also played for the London Olympians American football team as a wide receiver. At the age of 21 he was commissioned as an officer in the RAF reserves, until the age of 29 when he concentrated on running his own private investigations business, Expedite Private Detective Agency, which he does to the present day, often speaking on local/national radio about his various truth-finding services. Based just outside London, he recently wrote and recorded a honeytrap song now available on iTunes.