From The Minister of State
THE RT HON THE LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
19 January 1978
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David Owen has asked me to reply to your letter of 9 January
about Mr Thomas F M Tung.
He claims that some 18 years ago he was wrongfully convicted on a charge of evading payment of a 20 cent bus fare. He alleges that he was only convicted because he refused to pay a bribe to the magistrate concerned. Mr Tung has written repeatedly over the years to many people in the UK, including The Queen, Ministers and MPs seeking support for the "rehabilitation of his name". At our request the Hong Kong Government have carried out a thorough investigation of Mr Tung's allegations but have been unable to find any record of the case he refers to. Nor indeed is there any record of any other charge, let alone conviction against him. This has been pointed out to him on numerous occasions and he has been assured that his name and reputation in Hong Kong are unblemished.
Unfortunately, this reply does not seem to have satisfied him: as you will have seen, he maintains that the magistrate destroyed the record of the case and refused to write a written judgement. No doubt he feels that it is because of this that the Hong Kong Government have been unable to find any record of the case. But it is difficult to see what more he expects to be done. There is absolutely no reason why he should be precluded from taking action in Hong Kong: but without evidence of any basis for his complaint there is nothing that can be done to answer it. Nor is there anything that could usefully be done in the United Kingdom.
I am returning Mr Tung's letter.
Mr Christopher Price MP
House of Commons LONDON SWIA OAA
Yours
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Broncy.