HC Deb 09 December 1964 vol 703 cc204-6W
Mr. Hobden

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, why he will not grant a free pardon to Mr. N. Zoledziewski, arising from a conviction when it was alleged he had failed to register a change of address, although the evidence was not complete enough to warrant a conviction, and evidence submitted by his solicitor to the Home Secretary on 21st October, 1964, shows that there was clear evidence that there was no change of address.

Mr. George Thomas

The conviction was in 1954. Mr. Zoledziewski, who did not appeal at the time, represented to the Home Office in 1958 that he had been wrongfully convicted. Careful consideration was given to these and subsequent representations and my right hon. Friend has now considered the case, including the solicitor's letter of 21st October, but on the information before (him he can find no sufficient grounds for concluding that Mr. Zoledziewski was wrongly convicted.