88. Mr. Gresham Cookeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will investigate the circumstances in which Daniel Killgallon, now serving eight years' preventive detention in Nottingham Prison for house-breaking, has been re-arrested and sentenced for four further house-breaking offences committed while on parole before the expiry of his original sentence.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerSince 1954 certain selected preventive detention prisoners in the last stage of their sentences have been allowed to work at normal jobs outside prison returning to the prison at night. Killgallon committed offences while absent from the prison under this scheme and on 12th November was sentenced to a further eight years' preventive detention. I regret that in this individual case the trust on which the scheme depends proved to be misplaced.