HC Deb 18 April 1921 vol 140 cc1521-2
Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR (by Private Notice)

asked the Attorney-General for Ireland whether, in view of the acquittal of the cadets charged with the murder of Murphy and Kennedy in Drumcondra, the Government have any intention of placing any other of the cadets on trial for the crime, and whether any inquiries they have made into the circumstances of this undoubted murder have yet given them any clue to its perpetrators?

Mr. HENRY

There is at present no person in custody in connection with the murders at Drumcondra; but, in view of the acquittal of the three men who have been tried, it will be necessary for the police to pursue their investigations into the circumstances of the crime. It is obviously undesirable, however, as well as contrary to the common practice in regard to police investigations, for any evidence or information that may be collected to be made public until some person or persons have been arrested and brought to trial.

Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT

Were the two men referred to in the first part of the question murdered while in custody?

Mr. HENRY

That is a matter which has been inquired into, and the men who were alleged to have murdered them were acquitted.

Mr. SCOTT

Were they alleged to have been murdered while in custody?

Mr. HENRY

I am waiting for the shorthand report of the trial, and if the hon. Member will put down a question when I have received it, I will answer him.