§ 58. Lieutenant-Colonel Liptonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has now decided to release a prisoner, details of whom were sent to him on 22nd May last, who for some time received inadequate medical treatment and who is now dying from an incurable disease.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeThe prisoner in question was sentenced on 14th March, 1956, to three years' imprisonment for being an accessory before the fact to felony. I have carefully considered his case but I have been unable to find grounds on which I should be justified in recommending the remission of his sentence.
The prisoner is suffering from a progressive disease, but I am informed that he is not thought to be in imminent danger of death. He has been under constant medical care in prison and has been referred to an outside hospital familiar with his case. He is at present in the prison hospital. I shall keep his case under review.