Inspector Wainwright

Inspector Colin Wainwright works from a room at the back of Seabrook Police Station. A desk sergeant shows visitors through.

He is a broad, capable man in his mid-forties who deals competently with the problems he is given and would prefer not to be given additional ones. People who have brought him an additional one sometimes take this for indifference. It is closer to arithmetic. The station is small and the list is long.

He is polite and procedural. He will hear a thing out. He will then say it back, flatly, with the colour removed, and it is often smaller afterwards. Anything concrete and specific will get his attention. He has said so.

The Seabrook Chronicle quotes him as confirming, never as supposing. In September 2025 he confirmed that there were no suspicious circumstances in the death of Mr Edward Calder of the Mariner’s Rest, who fell from the pier in a storm. The inquest recorded accidental death.

He does not make jokes. He asks that enquiries be made in writing.

Where you will find him

At Seabrook Police Station, in the office at the back. It smells of carpet cleaner and paperwork.