HC Deb 10 September 1941 vol 374 cc187-8W
Lieut.-Commander Hutchison

asked the Attorney-General why Karl Theo Drueke and Werner Heinrich Waeltis, German agents, who were apprehended in Scotland, were tried in London by the Central Criminal Court instead of in Edinburgh by the High Court of Justiciary?

The Attorney-General

The question whether these men should be tried in Edinburgh or London was discussed between the Scottish and English Law Officers and the Director of Public Prosecutions. These men, who were not resident in Scotland, had been brought to London on arrest, and it was decided on grounds of convenience and expense that the trial should be held in London.