"Neville Heath had made the acquaintance of Margery Gardner. On a February night 1946 a disturbance in a room of the Strand Palace Hotel made the assistant manager and the head porter witnesses to a bizarre scene: a fair haired young woman lay face-down and naked on the bed and standing over her was a naked man wielding a cane. The woman's buttocks left no doubt as to what had been happening: she had been, at the least, caned as severely as any schoolboy within the limits of English law. To the astonishment of those who had come to her assistance, she flatly refused to prefer charges agai... Show more