§ 71. Mr. Woollamasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet considered the petition 107W to him in the case of Terence George Mercer; and whether he will now make a statement.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeI have carefully considered this petition, and I share the regret at the disaster which this young man has brought upon himself. Nevertheless perjury by a policeman in whatever circumstances is an offence of which the most serious view must be taken, and I can find no ground for interfering with the sentence which the judge in the knowledge of all the facts thought it right to impose.