The police were everywhere. Detectives mingled with sunbathers beside Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake, barged into Soho nightclubs, shone lights on the faces of couples necking in cars. Police search parties combed the London docks, held up the departure of two boat trains at Victoria Station, boarded freighters in three ports, and closely examined departing passengers at London Airport. Army helicopters hovered over 200 policemen fanning through the fields of Berkshire. Led by Alsatian dogs, hundreds of armed officers tramped for days through the forests of Epping, Savernake and Watford. A police patrol boat even picked up a vacationing German...
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