HC Deb 23 October 1912 vol 42 cc2204-5W
Mr. MONTAGUE BARLOW

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will have inquiries made into the case of W. B. Jackson, who, on the 12th day of May last, was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Jurisdiction of Southern Nigeria to four years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of a Kroo boy on board the ss. "Ethiope," while lying at Lagos; whether he is aware that the act was unpremeditated, committed under provocation, and largely attributable to trying climatic conditions; and whether, seeing that Jackson has always borne an exemplary character, he will review the case with a view to the remission of some portion of the sentence, which is now being worked out in Maidstone gaol?

Mr. GULLAND

The Secretary of State has received a report on the case in question. The question of a possible remission of a part of the sentence is under consideration by the Governor.