Profile | Hong Kong Dog Rescue founder on her father the spy, serving Mick Jagger, her New Age Shop and setting up her charity
- Sally Andersen, the founder of Hong Kong Dog Rescue, lived in Germany while her father set up the German equivalent of MI5 to catch Nazis
- She tells Kate Whitehead about working as a nanny in Ghana, dropping cars off for Mick Jagger, sailing to Hong Kong and her passion for rescuing dogs
My father was a spy. After the war, he went to Germany to set up the equivalent of MI5 to catch Nazis. He went with my mother and my eldest sister.
I was born in Cologne in 1951 and also have an older brother and a younger one. We lived on British bases and moved around a lot, from Cologne to Berlin to the UK and back to Berlin, then Munster and Paderborn.
As children, we knew he was in intelligence. If anyone asked what dad did, we were told to say that he was a civil servant. We still don’t know a lot of what he did because it’s classified.
Delivery for Mick Jagger
When I was 17, I went to Ghana, [West Africa], to work as a nanny for a little over a year. When I returned to Germany, I met Mike Simpson, who was a captain in the army. He’d just resigned and was waiting to leave the army. He went to London to get together money to travel around the world and suggested I come to London and get myself set up.