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Seriously, I could not make a definitive comment on a
specific case like this which awaits proper procedural
treatment in the courts.
Question: Well, excuse me Sir, but this case doesn't. He has been
given an amnesty, so that he doesn't have to go before
procedures in the court.
Minister:
I quite understand your point. However the circumstance of the decision by a legal officer will indeed have bearing on the court procedure, and I mustn't speak entirely for myself here because I shall not be engaged in those procedures, I must therefore bend over backwards to be absolutely fair and not to say anything which might prejudice one way or another what is after all a trial
What I would say about this or any similar case is this: at the end of the
day, ladies and gentlemen, what has happened here is detection, conviction, and shame, and the more cases there are of that having happened and been seen to have happened, the quicker you and I will see Hong Kong in the situation
that we think it is entitled to.
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