John Denby Wheater
John Denby Wheater
1922? - 19??
Sentence: 3 years.
Wheater was a former soldier and Brian Field’s employer at the solicitors firm. Wheater was the one who obtained Leatherslade Farm and actually had no knowledge of the robbery until after it had happened.
The judge sentenced him to three years in prison for not informing the police once he heard about the robbery. Many of the detectives investigating found it hard to believe that Wheater had no idea of what was happening in his office, or that what he was being asked to do might have been illegal.