​​In October 1943, Emma was convicted by the Court of the German Field Command of ‘continued larceny’ and given a five-year sentence. Her husband Henry was also sentenced at the same time to six months’ imprisonment for ‘continued receiving of stolen articles’. Emma’s sentence was almost unprecedented. The only other Islander to be given such a long sentence was John Ingrouille of Guernsey, sentenced to five years for sabotage. Emma must have been accused of stealing on a very large scale from the German forces. 

​Emma was deported on 2 December 1943, indicating that she spent 2 months in Jersey prison before her deportation. She stayed in St Malo for one night, was then moved to St Lo and then went to Fresnes Prison, just outside Paris. The testimony that Emma wrote for her compensation claim in 1965 was a long one and comprises mostly a litany of being moved from place to place across Germany and Poland, having to undergo different kinds of forced labour. The prisons and camps she was sent to include: Gotteszell Women’s Prison in Stuttgart, Hof, Nuremberg, Dresden, Bautzen, Gommern, Magdeburg and Schönebeck, which was liberated by the American forces on 12 April 1945. When she left Jersey, Emma weighed 65 kilograms but was just over 32 kilograms upon her liberation. 

​The Foreign Office decided that Emma Marshall should be turned down for compensation, given that her experiences were ‘in no way due to Nazism’ and were just examples of ordinary imprisonment for black market offences. 

​Emma Marshall died in Maidstone, Kent, in February 1987.​