Adelaide Milburn looked up nervously as DC Rawlings and PC Pink entered the interview room. Rawlings had interviewed Adelaide the day before and had now arrested her on suspicion of theft from the house of her employer.
She was very fearful and apprehensive. When Rawlings had questioned her at home, he had shouted and bullied her, accusing her of stealing from Mrs. Wallace whilst she was cleaning there. He had refused to accept her protestations of innocence, shouting ‘You people, all thieves, all of you, you only come over here to take our jobs and steal when you can.’
For Adelaide Milburn was from Antigua in the West Indies and had migrated to England with her husband and children, arriving on the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948.
MV Empire WindrushHer husband Mayn
