Date of Interview: 22nd November 2021
Place of Interview: Interview Room 2, Cirencester Police Station, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Time Commenced: 17.34
Time Finished: 18.56
Interviewer: Inspector Dai Evans
Interviewee: Norman William Climpson
Also Present: Cat (Property of the (Late) Duke of Ditchford)
Case No. GP/Cir/21/18978
Inspector
I know that after the Remembrance lunch, in the Corn Hall, you and Mrs Devereux walked down Market Place to where it meets Dyer Street, and outside the lane which leads to the Woolmarket you spotted an officer from the Remembrance parade. Can you confirm who that officer was?
Climpson
No response
Inspector
Mrs Devereux confirm it was Captain Antony Ward. Is that correct?
Cat
Meow
Inspector
Had you met Captain Ward before?
Climpson
No response
Inspector
Did you recognise him?
Cat
Meow
Inspector
He was a brave officer with lots of medals to prove it.
Climpson
Coward. He wouldn’t know how to fight in a real war.
Inspector
Is that what you told him? Did you ask him about his medals?
Cat
Meeeoow
Inspector
Will someone shut that cat up?
You challenged him about the medals he was wearing, you did. You were angry. Did you accuse him of impersonating an officer?
Cat
Meow, Meeeow
Inspector
Be quiet
Cat
MEOW
Inspector
Shall I speak to the cat Mr Climpson? He seems to be more forthcoming than you. What do you have to hide?
Climpson
No response
Inspector
Mrs Devereux dragged you away from the officer and walked with you back to the entrance to the Corn Hall. Did you see anyone else?
Climpson
No response
Inspector
What did you do after Mrs Devereux left you at the entrance to the Corn Hall?
Cat
Quiet Meow
Inspector
Quite right. This one-sided interview is frustrating. Mr Climpson where do you go after Mrs Devereux returned inside the Corn Hall?
Sigh.
Mr Climpson, I’m placing a photograph on the desk of items found at or near the Ram sculpture, where the body was found. Do you recognise them.
Climpson
Sharp intake of breath
Inspector
You do recognise something?
Climpson
No response
Inspector
How about the enamelled red poppy with the emblem of a sphinx in the centre?
Cat
Meeeow
Inspector
It’s the regimental poppy for the Gloucestershire Regiment. The regiment both your father and your late employer, the Duke of Ditchford served in.
Climpson
No response
Inspector
Mr Climpson. You were seen wearing such a brooch on Remembrance Sunday. And you told one of my officers that the brooch in the photograph is yours. Please can you confirm that for the tape.
Cat
Meow, Meoow
Inspector
This is impossible!
Knock on the Door
Inspector
What?
Constable Varma
Inspector, Dotty Sayers has come to collect the cat.
Inspector
You? Perhaps you should join this interview. At least you’ll have more to say about it than Mr Climpson.
Cat
MEOW
Inspector
On second thoughts, just get that cat out of here. It’s doing my head in, it is.
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