SERGEANT OF POLICE SUSPENDED: SEQUEL TO A FAKED CHARGE.
LONDON, September 16. Acting-Sergeant Smith, whose area included the beat of Constable John Clayton on the morning of the arrest of the girl, Helen Adele, has been suspended by the police authorities. The girl, who was arrested by Clayton on a charge of having behaved offensively, told the magistrate at Clerkenwell Court that she had slept in a taxi at a garage with the permission of the employees, and that Clayton had attempted to take liberties with her inside the cab, but she had repelled him. Clayton and another constable named Stevens had dragged her out of the cab. The charge against the girl was dismissed and Clayton and Stevens were tried for conspiracy, and were each sentenced to eighteen months’ gaol. At the trial of the constables Acting-Sergeant Smith swore that he saw Clayton on the beat., when it was alleged he had been in the garage.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18577, 27 September 1928, Page 9
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