CHASING errant husbands and advising TV glamour girls on cheating men is all part of Rebecca Jane’s job as a private detective.

But her latest project will see her meet Death Row criminals.

Rebecca, 30, owner and founder of The Lady Detective Agency, recently filmed a documentary with Jodie Marsh investigating men who lie, but admits her latest venture is making her decidedly jittery.

The mum-of-two, who lives in Clitheroe with second husband Ben, a police officer and local cricketer, has been corresponding with Death Row criminals in jails all over America.

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It’s for a research film commissioned by UCLAN for law students, but she is also in talks with the production company behind Trevor McDonald’s 2013 Inside Death Row series about making the film for TV.

Rebecca said: “The public’s response to the Trevor McDonald documentary was that the death penalty should be re-introduced for certain criminals.

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“I believe that too. I don’t see any point in keeping people like Dale Cregan, Ian Brady or Jamie Bulger’s killers alive.”

Tough talk, but it’s a fierce debate that separates the liberals from the hard-liners.

Rebecca is in the latter group, but is going in with an open mind.

She is awaiting permission from prison authorities in the USA and expects to be travelling out there around March.

But after undergoing health and safety briefings, reality is beginning to bite.

She said: “I was really looking forward to it thinking it was something that I could really get my teeth into.

“I never thought these people were on Death Row for stealing a tin of beans.

“But the crimes some of them have committed have upset me greatly and I really don’t want to speak to some of them, but that’s the whole point of the programme.

“One of them had broken out of prison and murdered someone as part of a kidnapping.

“But the crime he was originally in prison for was raping, torturing and murdering his partner’s two-year-old child – I was in floods of tears.

“But if I meet him and think he could be rehabilitated then you have to question if it’s right to bring back Death Row to Britain.”

Rebecca has never stepped foot inside a prison, but police officer husband Ben will be accompanying her on the trip.

“I’m the person who should not be going into a prison,” said Rebecca.

“I don’t look right, I’m from a very nice family background, I have two amazing parents who are my role models for life and I don’t come from a deprived area.

“I’ve never been into a prison in my life. It doesn’t bear thinking about, but I want to help educate people.”

Rebecca’s hoping that the experience will give her clarity over the capital punishment issue.

She added: “I’m hoping that I can meet these people and that they can change my mind into thinking that we shouldn’t sentence people to death. I’m hoping that I come out of this with a very clear view of what we should be doing.”

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One criminal who may cause her to question her beliefs is an inmate who wants to write books.

As a best-selling author of The Real Lady Detective Agency: A True Story, Rebecca is interested to know more.

“I feel I can help him and I’m interested to hear what he’s written about,” she said.

“He’s a normal person in one respect, but on the other hand he’s there for a serious reason.

“There needs to be more clarity about why we should bring back Death Row, but at the same time taking into consideration those people who could be rehabilitated.”

Rebecca will also be talking to charities that represent the allegedly wrongly convicted, like the paranoid schizophrenic who defended himself in court dressed as a cowboy and subpoenaed Jesus Christ, John F. Kennedy and the Queen of England to appear at his trial.

He was found guilty, despite evidence of his serious mental issues and the fact he had no professional legal help.

He was due to be executed two weeks ago but was given a last-minute stay.

Rebecca will also be talking to victims’ families “Amnesty says the death penalty doesn’t always bring closure for the victim’s family, which I would have thought it would,” she said.

Rebecca admits she is no Trevor McDonald, but says she does have “serious morals and ethics”.

She recently started the charity Stopping Traffic to investigate human trafficking and donates her agency’s time and resources free of charge.

“If someone is working as a modern-day slave in a factory in Blackburn or as a prostitute we will go and investigate by way of surveillance, sending someone into that workplace to work,” said Rebecca.

“There is a problem in East Lancashire and our work is ongoing.

“Solving these crimes can take years. It’s work we have covered for the last five years.

“We have always been a serious agency, but it just so happens that the only thing people want to talk about is cheating partners.”

However, Rebecca has found her looks stop her from being taken seriously.

She said: “People are shocked when they find out what I do.

“I don’t think they take me seriously until they have a conversation with me – but I don’t care, it helps me do my job because people are less suspicious of me and don’t see me as a threat.

“One of the reasons the agency is such a success is because no-one expects our girls to be investigators. They expect a random man in a raincoat or a suit. But people can carry on misinterpreting us, because they never see us coming.”

The glamorous image will, however, have to be toned down for interviewing Death Row murderers and rapists.

“I got told that when I do the interviews, it’s hair back and no make-up, said Rebecca.

“How the hell can I get around that one – being on camera with no make-up?” on. I’ve said I’ll never change, but Death Row may change me yet.”