HC Deb 24 October 1968 vol 770 c336W
68. Sir C. Osborne

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why he sanctioned the release on parole of a prisoner, before his sentence had been served for killing a man, who immediately on release murdered his own wife and another man and then committed suicide, and who was known to the police as dangerous and violent, details of which case have been sent to him by the hon. Member for Louth; and if he will end this new parole scheme, in view of the danger that it may result in other murders.

Mr. Callaghan

I would refer the hon. Member to the Answer I gave to a Question by the right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Hugh Fraser) on 17th October. I have no plans to recommend to the House that the parole scheme should be ended.—[Vol. 770, c. 568–70.]