§ SIR GEORGE DOUGHTY (Great Grimsby)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his attention has been called to the case of Elizabeth Perkins, who was recently charged at the Tower Bridge Police Court with perjury on the evidence of three police constables and a female searcher, but who was discharged without a stain on her character, the police authorities admitting that a mistake had been made, and agreeing to pay her expenses; and what compensation he proposes to pay this woman for the serious injury done to her.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI beg to refer the hon. Member to the full statement which I made yesterday in answer to the Questions put to me by several hon. Members.†
† See col. 540.
§ SIR GEORGE DOUGHTYIs it proposed to appoint a Committee of Inquiry into the circumstances of this case and into the efficiency or otherwise of the officer who committed this blunder?
§ MR. GLADSTONENo, Sir.