Sergeant Leakie

In the novel 4.50 from Paddington, Sergeant Leakie is a policeman assigned to a case of thefts from lorries. At 9.30 p.m. on the day of the murder, he was at the Load of Bricks, a lorry pull-up on the Waddington-Brackhampton Road, keeping certain lorry drivers under observation. He had seen Chick Evans and Alfred Crackenthorpe at an adjoining table. Alfred boarded a bus towards Brackhampton a few minutes later.