Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
From The Minister of State
The Rt Hon The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
Dear Potpey,
7 July 1977
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When I wrote to you on 30 May about the death sentences passed in llong Kong on two British soldiers, Gunner Puttock and Trooper Bassett, I promised to lot you know when the Governor had reached a decision on their petitions for clemency. You will want to know that on 5 July the Governor, on the advice of his Executive Council, ordered that the sentences of death on the two soldiers should be commuted to life imprisonment.
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The Rt llon Geoffrey Rippon QC MP
House of Commons
London SW1A OAA
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51
11 JUL 1977
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