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additional recreational facilities are provided

over the weekends. Mr Clements is given the opportunity to take exercise out of doors. receives mail regularly and has had a number

of visitors.

He

As to the possibility of transferring Mr Clements to the UK if he is convicted, provision exists (under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1884) for the removal to the UK of certain categories of prisoners, for example, prisoners who belonged at the time they committed the offence to one of the Armed Services, or prisoners whose health might suffer if they served out their sentence in Hong Kong. However, Mr Clements does not obviously fall at the moment into any of the categories

mentioned in the Act and I am afraid it is impossible to say at this stage whether grounds for his removal would exist.

You may be interested to know that the Hong Kong Commissioner in London told Kenneth Weetch, before he departed for Hong Kong last week, that he was most lome to visit

...

Mr Clements in prison should he wish to. I hope that he will be able to do so and that any

report that he brings home with him will

reassure both you and Er Clements' family

further.

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