Sunday Express – Sunday 12 January 1969
THE WIFE of one of the Special Branch detectives guarding the Commonwealth Prime Ministers spoke yesterday of the case of mistaken identity which has left a cloud over her husband’s future.
Inspector John Warwicker, 38, was suspended by Scotland Yard last year after he spoke up for three brothers accused of theft and was picked out by a police witness as the fourth man involved.
The charges were later dropped and Inspector Warwicker was reinstated. But he received no apology from the City of London police who investigated the theft, or from Home Secretary Mr. James Callaghan who ordered an inquiry into the case.
Yesterday, the inspector’s wife Elizabeth said at her home in Courtiands Avenue, Lee, London: “My husband feels he has been unfairly left with a stigma which will affect his chances of promotion.”
Mr. William Hamling, Labour MP for Woolwich West, who took up the case with the Home Secretary, said: “I am going to seek a full debate in the Commons. Inspector Warwicker has been shabbily treated.”