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Jan 18, 2021
The Guernsey Police trial of 1942 has made headlines in recent months due to an unsuccessful attempt to exonerate those convicted almost 80 years ago. Here, University of Cambridge academic Gill Carr, who has won awards for her work on the Occupation, speaks to the experts involved in getting the case looked at again. She writes.
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Gill Carr (29110815)
Dr Paul Sanders (29110805)
IN THIS article I interview my two colleagues who have been working on the Guernsey Police case of 1942: Patrick O’Connor QC of Doughty Street Chambers, a London barrister who has been leading the case, and Dr Paul Sanders, a historian and associate professor whose research interests include the German Occupation of the Channel Islands.
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.