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Bernard McCabe

Bernard McCabe

Retired Metropolitan Police detective who investigated the St Helena surgeon scandal alongside his wife, Sandra McCabe.

Aug 5, 2026

7:06
If that is you, do get in touch.
7:08
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.
7:13
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.
7:27
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

32:24
Could it actually be that he knew he was hurting people and maybe just didn't care? Bernard and Sandra were baffled and horrified.
32:33
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.
32:42
But he was there for five years.
32:43
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.
7:42
If that is you, do get in touch.
7:44
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.
7:49
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.
8:03
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

33:58
Could it actually be that he knew he was hurting people and maybe just didn't care? Bernard and Sandra were baffled and horrified.
34:07
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.
34:16
But he was there for five years.
34:17
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.
5:32
If that is you, do get in touch.
5:34
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.
5:40
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.
5:54
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

30:50
Could it actually be that he knew he was hurting people and maybe just didn't care? Bernard and Sandra were baffled and horrified.
30:58
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.
31:09
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.
31:20
It begs belief from, from my point of view.
6:35
If that is you, do get in touch.
6:38
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.
6:43
And then he made contact with me in October of 2021 out of the blue.
6:47
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.
6:55
And he said, oh, I know this sounds strange.
6:57
Can I run something by you? So he said that there'd been this investigation, as it were, had come to light.
7:04
from the General Hospital, Jamestown Hospital.

9 MINS LATER

15:53
So we could listen to South Atlantic broadcasts and learn about the potato crop in the Ascension Islands and things like that.

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