§ 8. Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he proposes to take with reference to Gunners Price and Parker, whose conduct has been found by a coroner's jury to have accelerated the death of Alfred Donnison, at Hull; and, as the conduct in question, brought to light only by death in that case, is becoming common, whether he will propose emergency legislation for the protection of civilans from both that conduct and the kind of swearing by which it is supported?
§ Sir J. SIMONThe coroner's jury found that Donnison's death was due to cardiac failure consequent upon fatty degeneration of the heart, and accelerated by shock through being wrongfully arrested by the soldiers in question. The soldiers, who had expressed their regret, and were, of course, ignorant of the state of health of the deceased man, were severely reprimanded 1944 by the coroner. I have no reason to think that such incidents are common, or that legislation is required to deal with them.