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It does appear odd that detail of a confidential letter between two people has come into the possession of Mr Sinclair. Mrs Elliott says that she did not originate the report by Mr Sinclair. One wonders then who did and for what purpose this person, whoever he or she is, made public the contents of a confidential letter?
Mr Sinclair's reputation as a police reporter and the esteem with which he is regarded by some police officers has reached me even here in England; indeed a colleague of his has commented upon it to me here in a mood which might be described as envious. Now, Mr Sinclair alone discovered the existence of this confidential letter; he alone knew some of its detail; he secured Mrs Elliott's confirmation that it existed and induced her to say something about it - something she now disputes that she said; he knew that a complaint had been made at Central Police Station on 12th November the self same day that it was made although police stations are not allowed to divulge the contents of their Report Books to reporters. What lines of communication Mr Sinclair must have! A first-class piece of instant reporting! Or is there more to it?
No Hongkong Government-conducted inquiry will permit the truth of this shameful 1966 plot to see the light of day. The Hongkong civil courts would not be likely to be able to record the truth, and they have for years been considered. No inquiry will be appointed from London.
However, there is still a chance that the long detail of this matter will be made fully public, as fully as I am able to make it. After my return from Hongkong to London in 1966 I wrote a manuscript recording the detail of the 1966 plot. It is to be published next year by my publishing house. It records facts that the Hogan Tribunal suppressed or otherwise did not mention in the carefully written Hogaan Report, and it examines the conduct of the Hogan Tribunal.
Perhaps criminal elements within the Hongkong Government who are so adept at intimidating young boys, blackmailing alleged poofters and trying to frame innocent elderly ladies might then have a complete chance to take on someone more in their own league.
Meanwhile, remaining witnesses for truth one hopes will remain. Lo Kei, some 19 years old, committed suicide about a year after the events of which he was a central character. It would not be too much to say that Hongkong society, principally criminal elements therein but also the interested parties of recognised institutions who kept silent or suppressed truth for so long wherever it raised its ugly head, murdered him.
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Undoubtedly the smooth-running machinery of corrupt and gutless elements in the Hongkong Government have cosigned particularly incriminating documentary evidence to the official vaporiser possibly substituting true typed copies for the sake of form, as one knows from experience of other matters.
evidence is among the official record, the transcript held so tightly by Colonial Secretariat. One hopes he will still have in due course the courage he had in 1966; and certainly although he was discreditable at that time because he had a criminal record,
too now has one so perhaps more credence might be placed on Lee's testimony, particularly in relation to other evidence rat then taken but rather suppressed.
There are other witnesses and one hopes they will still be around if ever a proper inquiry is conducted not one on the terms of corrupt elements or the Hongkong Government in further attempts to suppress truth. Supt. Hunt is still available though one wonders the nature and purpose of any approach that might be made to him on the 1966 matter by the Hongkong Government. That Government with the help of Whitehall and Westminster suppressed the truth of the widespread corruption that Godber has forced them to recognise publicly, for 10 years. It will continue to try to stifle or bend the truth of the framing of Elsie Elliott.
Yours sincerely
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ALAN ELLIS