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Derek Peter Francis Wheatley QC (died 23 September 2018) was an English barrister, legal advisor and novelist. Wheatley was educated at University College, Oxford, going up to Oxford in 1944. He became a barrister and was involved with the case of , who was tried at the Old Bailey for murder. As a barrister, he handled both criminal and commercial cases. Subsequently, he was a Recorder (judge) of the Crown Court and a Deputy Coroner of the Queen's Household (1959–64). He died on 23 September 2018 at the age of 92.