Two years later in 1959, Morris was promoted to Queen's Counsel. In 1965 he was made a Master of the Bench. Two years later in 1967 Morris prosecuted Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on possession of illegal drugs charges. The case highlighted the differences in British society between the generations, such as when Morris asked Richards whether he would agree that, "in the ordinary course of events, you would expect a young woman to be embarrassed if she had nothing on but a fur rug in the presence of eight men, two of whom were hangers-on and another a Moroccan servant?" Richards replied "Not at all". Morris pressed him, "You regard that, do you, as quite normal?", to which the answer came, "We are not old men [...] We’re not worried about petty morals." Morris won the case and both defendants received relatively harsh sentences, but Jagger's 3-month sentence was later reduced on appeal to a 12-month probation, and Richards' 12-month imprisonment was overturned completely. In Christopher Sandford's biography of Jagger, the pair's lawyer Michael Havers claimed he was told by Morris before the appeal that Morris had had "direct instructions" from above not to oppose the appeal. The sentences had attracted a lot of criticism in the press. In 1971 Morris defended armed robber John McVicar, on trial for escaping from prison while already serving a 23-year sentence. 3 more years were added onto the sentence, but McVicar was glad that it hadn't been upgraded to a life sentence. A chapter ("Plea") in McVicar's autobiography "McVicar by Himself" is written as a letter to Morris, persuading Morris to believe in his client's worth. At the time, Morris was already in poor health. Morris was born in Bromley, Kent. He married Betty Rene Russ in July 1949, who worked for MI5 and MI6. They had two children, Rupert (born 9 December 1951) and Laura (born 31 August 1953). Morris died in Bullingdon, Oxfordshire in October 1972, aged 59. Morris was played by Robert Hardy in "10 Rillington Place", a 1971 film based on the Evans/Christie case.