"Let s just say that I d like to snatch that woolly wig off Mr. Justice Har-
mon s woolly head and stuff it down his throat."
Detective Chief Superintendent Alec Webster of Scotland Yard was
white-faced as he spoke. His words brought a sudden hush to the small
group of reporters who had surrounded him on the steps of the Central
Criminal Court in London.
After a few seconds one of them said, "Do you really want us to print
that, Mr. Webster?"
"Every word."
"Think again, Alec." The speaker was Bill Parker, a senior crime reporter,
whom Webster had known for years.
"Want something a little tamer, do you?"
"Yes--for your own sake."
"OK. You asked for a statement. Here it is: I and my colleagues spent
nearly two years bringing Johnny Corelli to justice. Now, after a trial lasting
" almost a fortnight and costing heaven knows how many thousand pounds,
he s walked away a free man. I consider that the jury s decision is the worst
I ve known during twenty-five years in the Metropolitan Police. And I think
the judge s summing-up was a disgrace to the British legal profession. Good
afternoon, gendemen."
The next day it was splashed all over the front pages, yaPa~ MAN Sta~S
TmAL JUDGE was a fairly typical headline. Webster read the reports in three
papers over his usual breakfast of black coffee a~d cigarettes. Then he
found that, in addition, one of the gossip column~ had picked up his
original remark about the wig and the woolly head Well, he couldn t com-
plain at that: he d told them to print it.
He sat back and thought. He didn t regret any part of the more formal
statement. He d say the same again. But there could be no pretending the
matter was over. Senior police officers just couldn t go round saying things
like that about Her Majesty s judges. He d better get his oar in first. He went
to the phone, rang the Yard and left a message to be given to the Assistant
Commissioner s secretary when she arrived: Detective Chief Superinten-
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