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DRAFT SUBMISSION
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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----------In Confidence
To:-
Mr Wilford
Private Secretary
сс PS/Mr Royle
DEATH SENTENCE IN HONG KONG
Type 1 +
FROM
R Crowson
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
A
Mar
1
The Secretary of State wrote to, Ivor
Richard, 2C, MP, on 4 May about the death
sentence passed in Hong Kong on in Tsoi Kwok-
cheong.
2.
The Secretary of State informed Mr
Richard that Tsoi had petitioned The
Queen for the exercise of Her Residual
Prerogative of Mercy, but that he could not
comment at that stage on what his advice to
Her Majesty would be.
I RECOMMEND that the Secretary of State
ould now inform Mr Richard that he has recommended
Her Majesty to grant a conditional pardon
commuting the setnence of death to one of life
imprisonment.
I attach a draft letter,
The deforturant's
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