§ Mr. TOOLEasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Sidney Walter Nevard, aged 30, was recently sentenced by the Bromley (Kent) justices to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for sleeping out; that Nevard had never been previously convicted and that he was a homeless gardener; and whether he will have the facts investigated with a view to the remission of the sentence?
§ Mr. CLYNESI have been looking carefully and sympathetically into the facts of this case. It is fair to say that I understand that the magistrates sentenced the prisoner to the maximum term believing it to be in his own interest to do so, as in their view he was not fit to be at large. He has been under special medical observation while in prison, and I have this morning heard that he has now been pronounced insane. He will immediately be removed to an appropriate institution.