Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.
Mr Hector Hughes
, Aberdeen North
12:00,
27 November 1947
Would the Minister say whether these statistics show that, in the main, the habitual criminal seldom commits murder, and that, in the main, murders are committed by the inexperienced in life or by the deliberately depraved?
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