Churchill's Spy Files by Nigel West

Author:Nigel West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press

The prosecuting authorities considered that this explicit threat rendered his subsequent confession inadmissable and, combined with the reluctance to discuss Camp 020 in a courtroom, resulted in the withdrawal of the charge. In order to prevent Brodersen’s solicitor, a Mr Head from Ludlow & Co., from realising that it had been his demand for witnesses that had led to the collapse of the case, the court was informed that the Norwegian captain was unavailable:

Colonel Hinchley Cooke explained that the DG had instructed him to say that a witness from Camp 020 could not be made available either for the prosecution or for the defence, and that in the circumstances, the case must be withdrawn. Colonel Hinchley-Cooke suggested that the withdrawal could be accomplished fairly easily without in any way putting Mr. Head wise to the fact that the real difficulty lay in calling evidence from Camp 020; the whole burden of the withdrawal could be placed upon the captain of the Norwegian vessel from whom a statement would be taken at the earliest opportunity.

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