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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
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#2 UCT 1973
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT letter
To:-
fromps to
.
Love Bridger
Bs to member of
Type 1 +
FROM
Telephone No. Ext,
DJPC.
(PS/S.. Tim Hunk
Department HKIOD
In Confidence DOP (73)
DATE
CABINST
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
THE DEATH PENALTY IN HONG KONG
Kemorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign and
1.
Commonwealth Affairs
the Dore
t eur/meeting on 11 July (DOP (73) 17th meeting) The F. C.
com asked
I agreed to obtain figures of the growth of capital
crime in Hong Kong together with an analysis of the
grounds on which reprieves had been granted locally
in Hong Kong in recent years.
2.
giving
is a Annexed to this paper are figures
figures showing the
growth of major crime, including murder. These show
a steady upward trend. The number of murder and
manslaughter cases has more than doubled in five
years.
Also annexed is la table of murder cases which
have been considered by the Governor since the last
hanging took place in Hong Kong in 1966.
In every
case, until the recent case of Tsoi, he has been able
to find reasons for a reprieve.
CONFIDENTIAL
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