§ MR. E. H. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has released Thomas Murray, a police constable at Hampstead, who, on the 24th November last was convicted of perjury at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced by the Common Serjeant of London to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour; if so, whether Murray has received a free pardon, a conditional pardon, or a remission; and whether he advised the Crown to exercise its prerogative in this case on grounds affecting the conviction, or in simple mitigation of sentence?
§ *SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYYes, Sir; Murray has been released, Her Majesty being pleased, on my advice, to grant a remission of the remainder of the sentence. The question whether a free pardon should also be granted is now under my consideration. The grounds on which my advice to the Crown was based were grounds affecting the conviction, and included certain important facts which were not before the Court.