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Is the understooo the situation, was not the way the case had been put to us.
We had been told that Tsoi should not be reprieved
because his crime was worse than those of murderers
who had been reprieved. But to have allowed the law
to take its course in Hong Kong would have led to a
major row in Parliament.
There
have
There would beâ vote of
censure the Secretary of State which might have
been carried. Mr Woo said that some Labour MPs had
concludes also made this point to him. Mr Royle countered by
saying that the most recent figures on violent crime
that he had seen appeared to indicate that its rise
levelling was now phasing out.