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Mr. Russell Johnston
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will take steps to amend the law of Scotland so that convicted criminals at first thought to be mentally defective and then found not to be so are transferred to a normal prison to serve the rest of the appropriate sentence passed at the trial.
Mr. Gordon Campbell
If a case has been disposed of by hospital order, no sentence has been passed. I am considering the problem raised by the recent case which the hon. Member probably has in mind.