What worried Haldane and Brockie, however, was that it would now be a thousand times harder to escape. Additional sentries were added not just to the enclosure but to the neighboring yards. Several guards were accused of taking bribes and removed from the prison altogether. Even de Souza’s wife, Marie, believed that they were guilty, writing in her diary that Churchill “must have bribed the guards, who are policemen!” The new ZARPs were angrier, more vigilant and less easily distracted than their predecessors. They were not about to be humiliated again.
