Police Officer Acquitted
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 4. The jury stopped the hearing of a case against a detective-sergeant at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court today and found him not guilty of corruption. The officer, Detective-Sergeant Peter Henry Kitchen, aged 44, was discharged. He had been charged with corruptly accepting £lO from a street trader, John Potter, who had been arrested for stealing lead. At the end of the prosecution’s case the judge told the jury that a police officer with 23 years* service and the highest record was being accused by a mart with a number of convictions and that the evidence was completely uncorroborated.
“You have power and authority to say at any moment you have heard enough,” he said. The jury made its decision without retiring.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28528, 6 March 1958, Page 11
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