10th March,
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Mrs. E. Elliott,
216, Prince Edvard Road, Kowloon.
L/647/70
ACC 4/400/65
Madam,
In answering your letter of the 7th March it would perhaps be appropriate to begin by offering my congratulations on your re-election for a further term as a member of the Urban Council. May I also express the hope that continuing close association with Government servants may persuade you that there are many - and I hope I may be counted amongst them - who put the best interests of the people of Hong Kong as the foremost objective in all that they seek to achieve.
2.
The first question you ask has really been answered already in our initial exchange of letters dated November 7th and 11th, 1970. An accusation had beer made against a certain 7
that he had raped a young girl named
Following · police investigation, the Director of Public Prosecutions had to decide whether the prosecution which they had instituted should be proceeded with. As I stated, he exercised his discretion with the result that the court case did not proceed. The reason was that it was not in the public interest to prosecute this case. As a matter of policy, the reasons why a decision is reached in
are any particular case not disclosed.
3.
With regard to your second question, I cannot provide you with details as to what course the police investigations took in this case, but I can say that the Director of Public Prosecutions' decision was not made as a result of any deficiency in that
investigation.
Yours faithfully,
REPLY TO (7) READ BY
(G.R. Sneath)
Solicitor General
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