Police Action In Torture Case

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 12

Police Action In Torture Case

’ (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) I LONDON, May 5. [ One police officer had been I dismissed, one had resigned, and four were still serving J after an investigation into an , allegation that they were “in Charles Richardson’s pocket.” The assistant chief constable of Hertfordshire, Mr Gerald McArthur, said this at I London’s “torture trial.” Mr McArthur, the last wit- . ness for the prosecution, said [ in reply to Mr Geoffrey Crisp- . in, Q.C., defending Charles Richardson, that after some i names were given to him by . Jack Duval (a prosecution , witness), one police officer • had been dismissed, one had . resigned and four were still . serving. ! On trial are Charles William i Richardson, Edward George i Richardson, Roy Hall, Francis ■ Fraser, Alfred Abraham Berman, James Alfred Moody,

Thomas Charles Clark and Albert John Longman. They are charged variously in an indictment of 22 counts alleging robbery, assault and demanding money with menaces. They are not all charged on the same counts. They have all pleaded not guilty. Evidence has been given that they~ortured some of their victims. The case is continuing.

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