8th Dec., 1977.
Mr. L.J. Callaghan 10, Dunning St., London, S.W. 1 United Kingdom.
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Dear Mr. Callaghan,
I am writing you to seek your help to my family and public
justice.
My brother, LIU Fing-hon, joined the Hong Kong Government as
an Executive Officer attached to the Yaumati Police Station imme-
diately after his graduation from the Philosophy Department, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, in June. On 26th July this year, to my family's utmost grief, he was found dead outside the Hon Ming Building, just opposite to where our family lived.
Ping-hon's death was first classified as suicide by the police.
But neither his friends, classmates and staff who knew him, nor my
family believed that it was a suicide. Former Ping-hon's university teacher, Dr. Philip Shen and Dr. T. Chen, the Chinese University Student Union and the Chinese University Newspaper wrote to the
Chief Secretariat to appeal for a full investigation.
Subsequently, the case was brought to the Coroner's Court on 27th September. But due to the lack of evidence as regard to the circumstances of his death, the jury returned an Open Verdict '.
No further action was then taken by the Hong Kong Government
to clarify my brother's death. On our request for help and for public justice, the Hong Kong Barrister Association submitted an objective report to the Attorney General, Mr. Hobley, to request for further independent re-investigation. ( I enclose the report here for your reference, as it gives a very clear and exact account of the case.) To my utmost disappointment, Mr. Hobley refused a re-