Constables Kingston Bailey (pictured) and Frank Tuck broke into the occupiers’ stores at night, taking tinned food to share with the needy
The brave policemen who stole food from the Nazis to feed starving Channel Islanders during the war should be regarded as heroes.
But in a terrible injustice – and nearly eight decades after the men faced a Guernsey show trial – their families are still campaigning to clear their names.
All of the 18 policemen are dead, but it is hoped their case will now be taken up by the Government.
Occupied from June 1940 until May 1945, the Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to fall to German forces during the Second World War.