PUSHING BLACKMAILERS
FLOGGING SUGGESTED, .p cr Press Association— Copyright.) U LONDON, March 10. The Homs© of Commons debated a motion to try blackmail cases m camera on account of the victims disinclination to prosecute. Sir William Joynston-Hicks (Home Secretary), opposing the motion, drew attention ta the disadvantages of attempting to preserve secrecy as, toi example, in recent eases like the nil A ” whose identity was known throughout the world except in England. But in View of the difficulty of dealing with blackmail cases adequately he would possibly seek legislative power to inflict flogging. . The fflptipfl negatived without a division.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10349, 12 March 1925, Page 5
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