HC Deb 11 April 1905 vol 144 cc1257-8
MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of His Excellency has recently been called to the case of a prisoner named John R. Sullivan, of Millstreet, county Cork, who was sentenced at the Winter Assizes, Nenagh, 1891, to fourteen years and ten years penal servitude, to run consecutively; and whether, in view of the prisoner's conduct, and the circumstances of his wife and family, His Excellency can now see his way to exer

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cise his prerogative and commute the sentence of this man.

MR. JOHN O'CONNOR (Kildare, N.)

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a man named John R. Sullivan, of Millstreet, county Cork, was sentenced at the Nenagh Assizes, 1891, to two terms of imprisonment, viz., fourteen years and ten years, to run consecutively, and that this prisoner's conduct has been regarded by the prison authorities as so exemplary that the first term expired in 1902; and whether, in view of the prisoner's conduct and of the circumstances of his wife and family, and also that life sentences and long-term imprisonments for offences committed about the same period have been commuted, he will recommend the Lord-Lieutenant to order the early release of this prisoner, who has already suffered fourteen and a half years imprisonment.

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I understand that this case has already been considered by the Lord-Lieutenant, and that it will again come before him in due course. It does not fall within my province to make any recommendation in the matter.