HC Deb 24 July 1989 vol 157 cc727-8
56. Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Attorney-General, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Brent, East of 29 June, Official Report, column 507, if he will make a statement on the contents of the letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions dated 7 March from the chief constable of the Sussex police concerning the circumstances surrounding Mr. Colin Wallace's conviction for manslaughter.

The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)

No, Sir.

Mr. Livingstone

Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman's refusal to make a statement mean that he is satisfied with the 10 questions that I put to the chief constable of Sussex about collusion to create identical police statements, police interference during the trial and police withholding of evidence? Is he personally satisfied that all those fears are groundless and unfounded? Will he give the House that assurance?

The Attorney-General

All such questions are not for me but for my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary.