HC Deb 14 December 1933 vol 284 cc544-5
28. Brigadier-General NATION

(for Sir GIFFORD FOX) asked the Home Secretary whether an appeal has been lodged by officers Burt and Lloyd, who were recently dismissed from His Majesty's Prison, Oxford, following the escape of the prisoner, James Sullivan; and, if so, what action he has taken thereon?

Sir J. GILMOUR

Yes, Sir. I have received an appeal from these officers; but I regret that, after full inquiry, I can find no grounds for reconsidering the decision to dismiss them. They have been dismissed, not because they were held responsible for the escape of the prisoner, but because they failed to re- port his absence from his cell at breakfast time and in the course of the inquiry which followed maintained, contrary to the facts, that he was in his cell at that time.