‘Cane Best’

 

Before passing sentience on an 18-year-old youth who had pleaded guilty at Warwick Assizes to indecently assaulting a girl, Mr Justice Croom-Johnson commented at Birmingham Assizes today: “The old-fashioned cane is the best thing for him – teach him some sense – but the advantages of the public school are not open to people who would benefit so much by them.”

Binding the youth over, the Judge said: “If you do not behave yourself, you will be brought back here, and if the law has not been amended by then, authorizing people like you to be soundly whipped, you will go to prison for a very long time.”

All-parties move

Notices of two motions calling for revival of corporal punishment for crimes of violence have been given in the House of Commons.

They are in the names of members of each of the three parties.

One motion is by the Rev G. Lang (Lab., Stalybridge and Hyde, Cheshire), Sir Herbert Williams (Con., East Croydon), and Mr R. Bowen (Lib., Cardigan).

The other motion is in the names of four Conservative M.P.s

Portsmouth Evening News (England), 15 March 1950

 

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