Call to pardon suffragette ‘criminals’
SUFFRAGETTES who were jailed while fighting for the vote should be posthumously pardoned, campaigners said yesterday.
Women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society said it would be a ‘fitting tribute’ on the centenary of their victory.
Sam Smethers, of the Society, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘In any meaningful sense of the word, they were not criminals.’ Home Secretary Amber Rudd is now being urged to overturn the convictions. The Royal Mail will mark 100 years of the women’s vote with a set of special stamps.
The eight stamps, available from February 15, feature photos including the release from jail of the first Suffragette window smashers, Mary Leigh and Edith New.