180th Anniversary 4

HERTFORDSHIRE CONSTABULARY 180th ANNIVERSARY TIME-LINE: 4.
October 1857 – 25yr old Police Constable 13 John Starkins goes missing whilst on duty at Stevenage. His body is found three days later near Six Hills. He is the first officer of the Hertfordshire Constabulary to be killed on duty. A local man named Jeremiah Carpenter is charged with Starkin’s murder but is later acquitted.