§ 96. Mr. AMMONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the report of a brutal and aggravated assault at Clevedon, on the 9th September 979 last, on a Labour party speaker, whereby he was cripplied for life; and whether he will consider introducing legislation to increase the maximum penalty for such offences?
§ Captain HACKING; My right hon. Friend has seen a newspaper report, and has also obtained a report from the magistrates, who inform him that the prosecutor's solicitor desired only a summons for common assault. Legislation increasing the maximum sentence for assault is not desirable.