§ Mr. PATRICK O'BRIENasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether Harold Philip Trevor, who was only five weeks at large after serving a sentence of penal servitude, and who was recently convicted and sentenced to four years' penal servitude, declared that in the five weeks' liberty he committed over one hundred serious crimes; and, if so, whether he can say how he evaded police surveillance for the commission of so much crime?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Churchill)Trevor was not under police surveillance. He was released on a licence which expired after one week, and he was then free from all control. There can be no doubt that he committed a considerable 1072 number of crimes, most of them of rather a paltry character, before he was traced and arrested, but I do not think any special credence is to be attached to his boastful statements as to their number.