§ 66. Mr. Grimondasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what inquiries he has made into the new evidence contained in sworn statements by Mr. Andrews and Mr. Bloom that Mr. Lonsdale and Mr. Blake had frequent conversations together when in prison.
§ Mr. BrookeI described the inquiries which I had made, and their upshot, when I answered a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward) on 14th May. Copies of the sworn statements referred to have not been furnished to me. I understand that one is by an ex-prisoner who at the time in question had been sent to Wormwood Scrubs for psychiatric investigation on account of his mental state, and the other is founded on hearsay evidence. Seeing that the events in question took place more than three years ago, I do not really think that farther inquiries would serve any useful purpose.