§ MR. WILLIAM KENNYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give an assurance to the House that there is no intention on the part of the Executive to release from gaol John Daly, the dynamiter, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life at the Warwick Summer Assizes of 1884?
§ MR. ASQUITHThere is not, and has never been, any intention to interfere in the case of the convict Daly with the normal operation of the sentence.
§ MR. SEXTON (Kerry)Is that to be taken simply as an answer to the question, and not to preclude any future reconsideration of this man's case?
§ MR. ASQUITHIn the case of long sentences there are fixed periods when they come up for reconsideration by the Secretary of State.
§ MR. W. REDMONDWhen will the period for reconsideration arrive in Daly's case?
§ MR. ASQUITHIn all cases of life sentences, which is Daly's case, they are reconsidered at the date of 20 years from the date of sentence.