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HONG KONG: DEATH SENTENCES: LETTER FROM THE HON GEOFFREY RIPPON MP
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1. Mr Geoffrey Rippon QC MP (Conservative Hexham) wrote to Flag Mr Tomlinson on 17 May enclosing a letter from a constituent about the death sentences passed in Hong Kong on two British soldiers, Gunner Puttock and Trooper Bassett. In his reply of 30 May Lord Goronwy-Roberts promised to write to Mr Rippon again when the outcome of the petitions for clemency to the Governor
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2. Hong Kong have now reported that Puttock and Bassett's petitions for clemency were considered by the Executive Council on 5 July. On the Council's advice the Governor ordered that the sentences of death should be commuted to life imprisonment.
3. I submit a draft letter to Mr Rippon for Lord Goronwy-Roberts'
signature.
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6 July 1977
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PS/Mr Tomlinson
Capt Rose (PS2B (Army)) Mr Attewell (News Dept)
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