Handsome Brute: The True Story of a Ladykiller (58 page)

22
. Re. the police petrol coupons, DS Frampton, 8 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

Chapter 13

1
. Closing speech for the prosecution in Critchley (ed.),
The Trial of Neville George Clevely Heath
, p. 210.

2
. Ward Lock Red Guide,
Bournemouth
, p. 34.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
, p. 491.

5
. Ibid., p. 498.

6
. Ward Lock Red Guide,
Bournemouth
, p. 41.

7
. See Edington,
Bournemouth and the Second World War
, p. 105

8
. Ibid.

9
. The Americans dubbed Bournemouth without (apparently) irony, ‘the Miami of Britain’.

10
.
Bournemouth Echo
, 29 March 1944.

11
.
Bournemouth Echo
, 10 June 1946.

12
.
Bournemouth Times
, 8 December 1944.

13
.
Sphere
, 7 September 1948.

14
. Tollard Royal advertisement in
Bournemouth, Britain’s All Season Resort: The Official Guide
, published by Bournemouth Corporation, 1946.

15
. Violet Ruth Lay, 14 July 1946, MEPO 3/2728.

16
. Jones,
Rupert Brooke
, pp. 110, 304.

Chapter 14

1
. Ivor Arthur Relf, 23 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

2
. Ivor Arthur Relf, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

3
. Arthur James White, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

4
. Frederick Charles Wilkinson, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

5
. Charles Peter Rylatt, 15 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

6
. Bernard Harold Tutt, 12 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

7
. In her autobiography,
Stepping into the Spotlight: The ITMA Years
(Arrow, 1976), the Scots actress Molly Weir claimed that Heath tried to pick her up one afternoon in the restaurant at Bobby’s Department Store in Bournemouth. ‘The most noticeable thing about him were his eyes – blue and shining and full of a curious excitement’ (p. 70). He asked her not to return to London that night but to stay with him in Bournemouth. Weir claims that this meeting took place just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday 3 July and that she, therefore, had had a narrow escape. If this is true (though it may be that Weir met Heath on another day) Heath must have met her between having tea with Doreen Marshall at the Tollard Royal and having dinner with her there.

8
. The two statements from Peggy (Margaret Clare) Waring are held in TNA MEPO 3/2728.

9
. Peggy Waring’s first statement, 7 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ivor Arthur Relf, 23 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1522.

12
. Though Frederick Wilkinson the night porter had noted that Brook ‘did not appear to have a lot of money. The only thing he paid for in cash was for after dinner drinks in the lounge. The rest of his expenses would be embodied in his bill.’ Frederick Charles Wilkinson, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2 /1524.

13
. Bernard Harold Tutt, 12 July 1946, TNA DPP2/1524.

14
. The events of Saturday are all from Peggy Waring’s second statement, 13 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid.

Chapter 15

1
. Alexander John Brough, 11 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524. Brough suggests that tickets No. 1012 and 1013 were purchased together by the same person, implying that at this point Joan was going to accompany her sister to Bournemouth.

2
.
Daily Mirror
, 27 September 1946.

3
. Email to the author from Julia Young concerning her maternal grandfather, Charles Marshall, 11 March 2012.

4
. Bigland,
The Story of the WRNS
, p. 20.

5
. Drummond,
Blue for a Girl
, p. 45. As Doreen had learned, even office routine and correspondence was different from civil practice. ‘W.R.N.S officers must know that “Dear Sir” is not the mode of address in the Navy, neither is the personal pronoun permissible. Instead, “It is requested that . . .”’ Scott,
British Women in War
, p. 23.

6
. See
The People’s War
BBC website, www.bbc.co.uk/history/ ww2peopleswar/stories/48/a1153748.shtml

7
. Charles Marshall, 13 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

8
. Joan Cruickshanks, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

9
. Charles Marshall, 13 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

10
. Elsie Isobel Jones, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

11
. George Wisecarver, 13 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

12
. Charles Marshall, 9 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

13
.
Bournemouth Echo
, 3 July 1946.

14
. Heath’s statement, 2.45 a.m., 7 July 1946, witnessed by Detective Inspector George Gates. This statement was commenced at 11.50 p.m. on 6 July 1946, MEPO 3/2728.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Heinz Abisch, 13 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

17
. James William Newland, 7 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

18
. Sydney Walter Bush, 7 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

19
. She actually arrived by taxi.

20
. Heath’s statement, exhibit 14, TNA DPP 2/1524.

21
. Ivor Arthur Relf , 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

22
. Heinz Abisch, 13 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

23
. Detective Superintendent Lovell’s report to the chief constable of Dorset, Major L. W. Peel Yates, 18 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

24
. Arthur Charles Marsh, 12 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

25
. Winifred Marjorie Parfitt, 11 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

26
.
Radio Times
Vol. 91, No. 1187, 28 June 1946.

27
. Gladys Davy Phillips, 13 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

28
. Arthur White, 6 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

29
. Frederick Charles Wilkinson, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

30
. Ibid.

Chapter 16

1
. Frederick Charles Wilkinson, 6 August 1946, DPP 2/1524.

2
. Frederick Charles Wilkinson, 10 July 1946, DPP 2/1524.

3
. Alice Hemmingway, 10 July 1946, DPP 2/1524.

4
. Frederick Charles Wilkinson, 6 August 1946, DPP 2/1524.

5
. Karl John Hambitzer, 12 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

6
. Alice Hemmingway, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

7
. Harry Taylor, 11 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

8
. Ellen Janie Bayliss, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

9
. Alfred Jesse Phillips, 12 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

10
. Heinz Abisch, 13 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

11
. Robert Donald Cook, 10 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

12
. Arthur White, 10 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

13
. Ibid.

14
. The address of Heath’s former fiancée, Peggy Dixon.

15
. Henry Walter Burles, 6 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

16
. Gladys Davy Phillips, 13 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

17
. Ivor Arthur Relf, 6 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

18
. Stanley Lionel Pack, 13 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Harry Berkoff, 6 Aug 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

21
. Clive Eugene Miles, TNA CRIM 1/1806.

Chapter 17

1
. George Robert Suter, 13 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

2
. Email to the author from Michael Suter, 30 May 2012.

3
. George Robert Suter, 3 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

4
.
Bournemouth Echo
, 5 November 1980.

5
. This conversation is taken from Suter’s witness statement.

6
. Heath later said he was mistaken and that they had met in the morning.

7
.
Daily Express
, 9 July 1946.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Leslie Ewart Johnson, undated, TNA DPP 2/1522, DPP 2/1524.

10
. Leslie Ewart Johnson, undated, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

11
. Initially he spoke to DI Wilfred Daws.

12
. Email to the author from Michael Suter, 30 May 2012.

13
. Leslie Ewart Johnson, TNA DPP 2/1524.

14
. George Henry Gates, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

15
. List of Exhibits Sheet 9 On Person – Heath. Removed by Bournemouth Police on 6 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1522.

16
. List of Exhibits Sheet 10, in jacket found hanging on clothes peg in Lounge, Tollard Royal Hotel, Bournemouth. Taken possession of by Divisional Detective Inspector Spooner on 7 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1522.

17
. Leslie Ewart Johnson, TNA DPP 2/1524.

18
. George Henry Gates, TNA DPP 2/1524.

19
. TNA DPP 2/1522.

20
. The forensic laboratory in Hendon later confirmed that hairs on the scarf were from Margery Gardner’s head and that this scarf had been used to gag her, possibly contributing to her suffocation.

21
. Particulars of handkerchiefs traced to Heath’s possession, 31 August 1946, TNA HO 144/22781.

22
. Metropolitan Police Laboratory, Hendon, 11 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

23
. See Reginald Spooner’s statement, 17 July 1946, TNA MEPO 3/2728.

24
. Further statement of Harold Harter, 8 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1522.

25
. Reginald Spooner, 29 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1522.

26
.
Daily Mail
, 9 July 1946.

27
. Adamson,
The Great Detective
, p. 177.

28
. Newsprint clipping translated from Swedish: ‘Record Bloodhound at Fault in Hunt for Lust Murderer’, MEPO 3/2728.

Chapter 18

1
. Kathleen Evans, 9 July 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

2
. Francis George Bishop, 13 August 1946, TNA DPP 2/1524.

3
.
News Chronicle
, 10 July 1946.

4
.
Daily Mail
, 12 July 1946.

5
. The description of the crime scene is in Detective Sergeant Bishop’s and Crichton McGaffey’s statements. McGaffey also includes his post-mortem report, TNA CRIM 1/1806. He first examined the body at the scene at 11 a.m. and the post-mortem was conducted at Poole at 2.30 p.m.