§ Sir A. YEOasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has now received the report upon the torture inflicted upon a native or natives of East Africa; and whether he will lay this Report upon the Table of the House?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYThe report on the case to which my hon. Friend refers has not yet been received. I understand that the accused was sentenced on each of two counts to two years' rigorous imprisonment, the sentences running concurrently, with a fine of 2,000 rupees or nine months' rigorous imprisonment on a third count. An appeal against the sentence was dismissed, the presiding Judge stating that the record disclosed serious acts of heartless and callous brutality. He added that such cases were happily very rare in East Africa, and that the general behaviour of the whites showed594W a strict sense of duty, fairness, and humanity towards natives.