30 JULY 1965, Page 11

The Home Office Muddle.

SIR,—An ex-inmate of Holloway Prison tells me -that on her arrival at the main gate a wardress gloatingly drew her attention to a small mound under which are buried the remains of Ruth Ellis.

Whatever Mr. Butler's other achievements at the Home Office, it gives your political commentator no room to declare that his period there was marked by `no refusal of reprieves which outraged the • public conscience.'

Rose Cottage, Elcombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire

[It wasn't Mr. Butler, it was Lord Tenby (then Gwilym Lloyd-Georget—Editor, SpectatOrl