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Iain Roberts

Where’s a cat when you need one?

By Iain Roberts | Sun 14th March 2010 - 5:08 pm

In November 1912, the use of flogging with the cat was extended to those procuring prostitutes and for crimes against women and children. An anti-flogging amendment was rejected by 297 votes to 44.

Some were opposed. George Greenwood (Liberal, Peterborough) called flogging “the methods of barbarism”.

Arthur Lynch (Nationalist, West Clare – this was before Irish independence), described the horrors of a flogging he had witnessed.

” was an artist in it. He laid on the lash with such vigour that at every stroke the victim’s whole frame quivered, his eyes rolled in, his muscles stood out as though they

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