Chief Inspector Stanley was the prosecutor when Elsie Tanner appeared in the Magistrates’ Court on a charge of stealing from her employers, Miami Modes, in November 1969. The true culprit, who had confessed her guilt to Elsie just before leaving for the court, was her friend of many years Dot Greenhalgh. Supposedly off work ill, she had rung Elsie and asked her to collect two bags for her, one of which contained two stolen dresses. He first questioned Dot, who lied on oath, and then Elsie who admitted that Dot’s request to bring the bags home was an unusual request. He tried to raise a doubt that Elsie hadn’t checked the contents of the bags before trying to take them out of the court. Mr Palmer was Elsie’s solicitor and his tactics were to create doubt in the mind of the magistrates by qu