
Bernard McCabe
Retired Metropolitan Police detective who investigated the St Helena surgeon scandal alongside his wife, Sandra McCabe.
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Aug 5, 2026
Introducing...The Surgeon of St Helena
7:08
7:13
7:27
32:33
32:43

Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I knew he was out there, but I'd had no contact with him for the period that he'd been out there to start with.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
And then he made contact with me in October of 2021 out of the blue, just a phone call out of the blue saying, "Oh, how are you? How's things going? What are you up to?" I said, "Yeah, just ticking along." Uh, and he said, "Oh, I know this sounds strange.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
Can I run something by you?" So he said that, that there'd been, um, this investigation, as it were, had come to light from the general hospital, Jamestown Hospital.
25 MINS LATER
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32:24Luke JonesHOST
Could it actually be that he knew he was hurting people and maybe just didn't care? Bernard and Sandra were baffled and horrified.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
If it was over a very short period of time, you think, well, perhaps the, someone, a supervisor or someone in a senior position hadn't had the t- the opportunity to intervene.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I find it actually incredible that nobody saw fit to actually have some sort of balancing checks and, and, you know, a periodic review of his work and just let him run.
Introducing...The Surgeon of St Helena
7:44
7:49
8:03
34:07
34:17

Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I knew he was out there, but I'd had no contact with him for the period that he'd been out there to start with.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
And then he made contact with me in October of 2021 out of the blue, just a phone call out of the blue saying, "Oh, how are you? How's things going? What are you up to?" I said, "Yeah, just ticking along." Uh, and he said, "Oh, I know this sounds strange.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
Can I run something by you?" So he said that, that there'd been, um, this investigation, as it were, had come to light from the general hospital, Jamestown Hospital.
26 MINS LATER
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33:58Luke JonesHOST
Could it actually be that he knew he was hurting people and maybe just didn't care? Bernard and Sandra were baffled and horrified.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
If it was over a very short period of time, you think, well, perhaps the, someone, a supervisor or someone in a senior position hadn't had the t- the opportunity to intervene.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I find it actually incredible that nobody saw fit to actually have some sort of balancing checks and, and, you know, a periodic review of his work and just let him run.
The Surgeon of St Helena - The Sunday Story
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5:40
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30:58
31:09

Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I knew he was out there, but I'd had no contact with him for the period that he'd been out there to start with.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
And then he made contact with me in October of twenty twenty-one out of the blue, just a phone call out of the blue saying, "Oh, how are you? How's things going? What are you up to?" I said, "Yeah, just ticking along." Uh, and he said, "Oh, I know this sounds strange.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
Can I run something by you?" So he said that, that there'd been, um, this investigation, as it were, had come to light from the general hospital, Jamestown Hospital.
25 MINS LATER
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30:50Luke JonesHOST
Could it actually be that he knew he was hurting people and maybe just didn't care? Bernard and Sandra were baffled and horrified.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
If it was over a very short period of time, you think, "Well, perhaps the, someone, a supervisor or someone in a senior position hadn't had the, the opportunity to intervene", but he was there for five years.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I find it actually incredible that nobody saw fit to actually have some sort of balancing checks and, and, you know, a periodic review of his work and just let him run.
The Bone Man
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Bernard McCabeGUEST
So I knew he was out there, but I'd had no contact with him for the period that he'd been out there to start with.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
Just a phone call out of the blue saying, oh, how are you? How's things going? What are you up to? I said, yeah, just ticking along.

Bernard McCabeGUEST
Can I run something by you? So he said that there'd been this investigation, as it were, had come to light.
9 MINS LATER

Sandra McCabeGUEST
So we could listen to South Atlantic broadcasts and learn about the potato crop in the Ascension Islands and things like that.