Nick Ephgrave has the air of a copper under siege. A former Metropolitan police officer who once pounded the pavements of Brixton in south London, the ninth director of the Serious Fraud Office can be forgiven for feeling claustrophobic in his office overlooking Trafalgar Square.
The SFO’s offices in Cockspur Street, near the tourist-thronged square and its barrage of buskers, are a far cry from the glass and steel headquarters of the companies it takes on.
