HC Deb 09 March 1925 vol 181 cc951-2W
Sir W. DAVISON

asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the comments recently made by the Lord Chief Justice as to the undesirability of rearresting a. man who has served his sentence at the prison gates, immediately on his leaving prison, in respect of some other crime of which he had been guilty prior to the sentence which he had just served and of which the police had knowledge at the time of the trial which resulted in his conviction; and what steps he proposes to take in the matter

Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS

I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave on Thursday last to my hon. Friend the Member for the Balham and Tooting division (Sir A. Butt).