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LETTER
14/16
DRAFT
| SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
To:-
Type 1 +
The Rt. Hon Lord Gardiner Chairman of the Council JUSTICE
12 Crane Court
Fleet Street,
LONDON EC 4
FROM
Secretary of State Telephone No. Ext.
Department
enclosing
Thank you for your letter of 10 May sending
me a copy of the Telex message which you had
sent to the Governor, Hong Kong about the death
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sentence on TSOI Kwok-cheong.
Mr Tsoi petitioned The Queen for the
exercise of Her Residual Prerogative of Mercy.
has been pleasen
I recommende
nded Her Majesty to grant a conditional
pardon commuting the sentence of death to one of
life imprisonment,
Instrument of Pardon.
The Queen has signed the