§ Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHYasked the Chief Secretary if his attention has been called to the remarks of the Judge-Advocate at a court-martial in Limerick on Michael O'Connell and Patrick Egan on 27th May last for the possession of a revolver, in the course of which he censured the police for soundly beating prisoners in order to extort confessions, and to the admission of one of the constables that he had beaten one of the prisoners with the butt-end of a rifle; and whether these policemen will be brought to trial for maltreating helpless prisoners in this manner?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply I gave on 31st May to a Private Notice Question on this subject by the hon. and gallant Member for the Leith Division (Captain W. Benn). The constable involved has been suspended. Inquiry is still proceeding. I have asked that it may be expedited.