The handles on the Stryker stretcher can by extended after a locking button has been pressed

Though he his house of polisht marble build, / Yet shall it ruine like the Moth's fraile cell

I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal.

For one thing, he wanted to see if anyone was following Ricketts. The Cockney had been thrown out of SAS because he was a loner and a canteen cowboy.