 As Adams was not a beneficiary of Mrs Morrell's final will, as amended by a codicil of 13 September 1950, this answer was in fact correct, although he may have believed he was a beneficiary, as he later told the police.The Eastbourne police had received an anonymous call, later discovered to be from the music hall performer Leslie Henson who had been working in Dublin at the time, about the unexpected death of his friend Gertrude Hullett on 23 July 1956, while being treated by Adams.Mrs Hullet had been depressed since the death of her husband four months earlier and had been prescribed sodium barbitone and also sodium phenobarbitone to help her to sleep.