a book, "the west end front" (published in 2011) by matthew sweet, gives details of a forgotten family incident in london during ww2 which resulted in jerrard facing trail at the old bailey for a charge for which he was acquitted. sweet recounts how he broke the news of this rediscovered chapter of family history to jerrard's two surviving son's sir crispin, formerly britain's permanent representative to the united nations and tom tickell, former guardian newspaper columnist.