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Posthumous Pardon For Derek Bentley(no2)

EDM number 386 in 1991-92, proposed by Robert Parry on 12/12/1991.

That this House is deeply concerned at the continuing secret inquiry that the Home Office has been conducting into the issues raised by the book `To encourage the Others', that calls for an independent public inquiry into the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1953; notes that this secret Home Office enquiry has now lasted for over 18 months; and demands that the Home Secretary either recommends immediately a posthumous pardon for Bentley or sets up without further delay a full independent public inquiry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Robert Parry12/12/1991Liverpool, RiversideProposed
Simon Hughes12/12/1991Southwark and BermondseySigned
Gerry Bermingham12/12/1991St Helens SouthSigned
John Cummings12/12/1991EasingtonSigned
Eddie Loyden12/12/1991Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Ronnie Campbell12/12/1991Blyth ValleySigned
Alan Meale13/12/1991MansfieldSigned
David Knox16/12/1991Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Terry Lewis16/12/1991WorsleySigned
Keith Bradley16/12/1991Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Frank Cook16/12/1991Stockton NorthSigned
Terry Davis16/12/1991Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Norman Godman16/12/1991Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Harry Barnes16/12/1991North East DerbyshireSigned
John Battle16/12/1991Leeds WestSigned
Peter Hardy17/12/1991WentworthSigned
Irene Adams17/12/1991Paisley NorthSigned
Maria Fyfe17/12/1991Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Terry Fields17/12/1991Liverpool BroadgreenSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie17/12/1991Glasgow, PollokSigned
Bob Cryer17/12/1991Bradford SouthSigned
Harry Cohen17/12/1991LeytonSigned
Ronald Brown17/12/1991Edinburgh LeithSigned
Gordon Oakes17/12/1991HaltonSigned
Terry Patchett17/12/1991Barnsley EastSigned
Mike Watson18/12/1991Glasgow CentralSigned
Roland Boyes18/12/1991Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Edward O'Hara18/12/1991Knowsley SouthSigned
Bill Michie18/12/1991Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Eric Illsley18/12/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Roy Hughes18/12/1991Newport EastSigned
John Home Robertson18/12/1991East LothianSigned
Allan Rogers18/12/1991RhonddaSigned
Tony Lloyd18/12/1991StretfordSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe19/12/1991LeighSigned
Jim Wallace19/12/1991Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Ron Davies19/12/1991CaerphillySigned
Alistair Darling19/12/1991Edinburgh CentralSigned
Chris Mullin19/12/1991Sunderland SouthSigned
Martin Redmond19/12/1991Don ValleySigned
Peter Pike19/12/1991BurnleySigned
Bruce Grocott13/01/1992Wrekin, TheSigned
Ronnie Fearn16/01/1992SouthportSigned
Kevin Barron16/01/1992Rother ValleySigned
Tony Banks22/01/1992Newham North WestSigned
Robert Wareing22/01/1992Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Dennis Turner22/01/1992Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Jack Thompson22/01/1992WansbeckSigned
Tommy Graham23/01/1992Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Michael Welsh23/01/1992Doncaster NorthSigned
Joan Lestor29/01/1992EcclesSigned
Mildred Gordon29/01/1992Bow and PoplarSigned
Audrey Wise29/01/1992PrestonSigned
Martyn Jones03/02/1992Clwyd South WestSigned
Derek Enright05/02/1992HemsworthSigned
Andrew Faulds05/02/1992Warley EastSigned
Diane Abbott05/02/1992Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
David Young05/02/1992Bolton South EastSigned
John McWilliam11/02/1992BlaydonSigned
David Clelland11/02/1992Tyne BridgeSigned

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