§ 54. Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement on the circumstances in which Nicholas Purcell was taken into police custody in the corridors of the Manchester City Magistrates' Court, on Thursday 2nd March, 1967, after the Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate had placed him on probation for two years.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsPurcell was properly arrested as an absconder from borstal, but since he was placed on probation on 2nd March I decided to recommend the remission of the remainder of the borstal sentence. He has been released.