James Newcombe

Inspector James Newcombe was a police detective working for Scotland Yard in 1885, by which time he was 35 years old.

He was "a heavy man, fat and out of shape" with a ruddy faceand an abrupt, abrasive, and hostile disposition. (GAME: ) He was a "self-important man", (GAME: ) a "professional but unimaginative police detective"; his "dogged devotion to duty" was matched only by an "unrelenting hatred" of civilians who got in the way of justice as he saw it, especially amateur detectives. (GAME: ) As such, when he was charged with investigating the murder of Sir Reginald Carruthers, he proved a hindrance to the Time Lord Rollo and his companions, who were attempting to interrogate the dead man's son Thomas as part of their own broader investigation. (GAME:, )