Posthumous Pardon For Derek Bentley

EDM number 51 in 1991-92, proposed by Robert Parry on 31/10/1991.

That this House welcomes the book To Encourage the Others by David A. Yallop, calling for an independent public inquiry into the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1952; requests the Home Secretary to set up the inquiry as a matter of urgency; hopes that such a request will lead to a posthumous pardon; and feels that this will end a grave miscarriage of justice which leaves a permanent blot on the British judicial system - the hanging of an innocent man.

This motion has been signed by a total of 165 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.