Scotland Yard's Murder Squad by Dick Kirby;

Author:Dick Kirby; [Kirby;, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9781526765338
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2020-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Since the normal, acceptable dose of barbitone tablets was just two, who had administered the extra eighteen?

After thirty-six minutes of deliberation, the jury unanimously decided that Mrs Hullett was responsible and a verdict of suicide was duly recorded. Fourteen witnesses had been heard, the last of whom was Hannam, who agreed with the coroner when he asked if he had been called in to investigate ‘certain deaths in this neighbourhood’.

After Adams drove off in his MG sports car, he was interviewed at home by the press. ‘I am glad my name has been cleared’, he said. ‘What started all the rumours, I don’t know . . . As for the Rolls-Royce, that was the first time I heard of it today. And I never wanted it; I have a car already.’

But the result of the inquest did not quieten the rumours; they intensified. And while Adams unctuously stated that his name had been cleared, he was one of the few who said – or thought – so.

Enquiries at Somerset House in London continued, and Hannam’s team now occupied a large room opposite to the CID office at Eastbourne police station. Along the length of one wall were trestle tables containing files on the dead persons.

On 23 August, for the first time, the word ‘exhumation’ was mentioned. The following day, the grave of 85-year-old Mrs Julia Bradnum in the Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne was inspected. Her house at Goodwood Bank, Cooper’s Hill, Willingdon was now occupied by three elderly spinsters. One of them, Miss Grace Hine, said, ‘Mrs Bradnum died very suddenly; there was not even time to call in a nurse. I never knew what she died of.’ She had complained of pains in her stomach; Adams was called, gave her an injection and said, ‘I’m afraid she’s going.’ And he was right; she was. Mrs Bradnum changed the contents of her £4,600 will shortly before she died. Her house was sold and the proceeds were split six ways; Adams was a beneficiary.

On the same day, Adams returned to Eastbourne having spent two hours in the company of legal experts from the Medical Defence Union in London, who had provided the barrister for his attendance at the Hullett inquest. ‘I can say nothing’ he told reporters. It was not only Adams who was given cogent advice; by the following Tuesday the Eastbourne branch of the British Medical Association informed all doctors in the town that they were not to talk about their relationships with patients to anyone without the consent of those patients or, in the event that the patient in question had died, without the consent of the relatives. Asked about a deceased former member of the Upperton Congregational Church, the minister, Dr H. Ingham, told his flock, ‘If anybody asks you, say your minister knows no more about it that you do.’

It appeared that certain members of Eastbourne’s community – including some police officers – were closing ranks in an effort to frustrate Hannam’s enquiries. The Attorney General wrote

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