§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will hold an urgent inquiry into the deaths of (a) Nenneh Jalloh on 24 April at Marylebone police station and (b) Mohammed Parkit on 1 May; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggI understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that he has not received any complaints arising from the deaths of either Mohammed Parkit, who did not die in police custody, or Nenneh Jalloh, and that there was no criticism of police action by the coroner at the inquests into their deaths. The Commissioner has referred the death of Nenneh Jalloh to the Police Complaints Authority, which is supervising an investigation into the circumstances in which it took place.
I have no plans to institute any other form of inquiry.
198Wimmediate imprisonment or youth custody in 1985 for certain sexual offences against children is given in the following table, which also shows the average length of sentence imposed. For other offences it is not possible, from the records of the results of court proceedings held centrally, to distinguish the age of the victim.