Sergeant Keeley

Sergeant Keeley is a non-canonical character created for the film adaptation of Dumb Witness in Series 6 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot. He is the local police sergeant. He turns down Poirot's request for a post-mortem because he has a death certificate from Dr Grainger certifying that Emily Arundel died of liver failure. In the same way, he does not take a serious view of a break-in at Little Green House reported by Wilhelmina Lawson because he doesn't find any signs of a forced entry. However, after Dr Grainger is killed, he begins to take a more serious view, telling Poirot that two deaths in the same house within a short time is "two much for these parts". Sergeant Keeley is portrayed by Geoffrey Freshwater. Where he is based is not specified but the old police station at Hawkshead near Windermere was used as the film location of his station.