REPORT ACCEPTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16703, 21 July 1928, Page 6

REPORT ACCEPTED

SCOTLAND YARD INQUIRY

DEBATE IN COMMONS (British Official Wireless.) Re.;. 2 p.m. RUGBY, July J2O. The House of Commons to-day considered the reports of the tribunal which inquired into the interrogation by the police at Scotland Yard of Miss Irene Savidge following the dismissal of the Hyde Park case against her and Sir Leo Chiozza Money.

The tribunal declivered two reports, a majority report signed by Sir John Hanks,'a. former judge, and Mr ,). J. Withers, a. Conservative member of Parliament, and a. minority report signed by Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, a Labor member of Parliament. The majority report expressed (he view that while no coercion was used in 1 lie interrogation, which was in accordance vith tiie usual police practice, that practice should be. amended .so that when the character of the witness interrogated was involved lie or she should be duly informed beforehand of the nature of the interrogation, and of the possible consequences. The minority report, which, expressed dissatisfaction with the whole manner of the interrogation, recommended ;iu exhaustive inquiry into the methods of police administration.

Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, staled'during the debate that the Government was hound to accept the findings of the majority report, but lie had decided to appoint a. Royal Commission, to which every point raised in the minority report would be fully referred. Meanwhile, he had given, instructions amending the police procedure in the way suggested in the majority report.

The majority report was accepted'by 211 voles to 65.