Anyway thanks for your views and suggestions, New job March 3rd lesson learnt, Same industry so may get some payback reading there customer base.
This was the gross misconduct. Same thing happened to my mate 3 years ago. Headhunted by a rival insurance company and was sacked within 24 hours of accepting his new role. He was positive his e mails and texts were monitored by his firm.
He now has 2 phones business and personal. We obviously all rip the piss out of him as he looks like a drug dealer with his multi phone comedy capers.
My advice would be to move on. That's business. I wouldn't want anyone to work for me either if they were going to be chasing the same client base for a rival next month.
I am a big CAB fan also. They help with all sorts. Hope your new job is a belter too. Enjoy.