Jim Nevill

James Francis Nevill was the head of the Scotland Yard Bomb Squad. He was Detective Chief Superintendent in 1975 at the height of a Provisional [Irish Republican Army] bombing campaign in London, the police cornered four IRA gunmen in a flat in Balcombe Street where they took a middle aged couple hostage. The siege lasted for six days, Nevill was in charge of the negotiations. He also took part in the investigation of the Great [Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery] in 1963. He was later promoted to commander. He died on 12 December 2007.
He served in World War II in the Royal Fusiliers.