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Ah Tung's evidence is particularly important because he had never been interviewed by the connection with this matter. The Commission became aware of his existence from information given by Molo Tsui. Having heard Ah Tung, I accept that Ah Tung knew MacLennan, and had a homosexual relationship with him. I noted, for example, the confident manner in which he immediately identified MacLennan's photograph from a book of small photographs of men of similar appearance (Exhibit No. C10).
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29. Richard Stanford. He was the manager of the Waltzing Matilda Arms at Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui for about six years from September 1974 to June 1980. He also worked for about one year in 1970 at another establishment known as Waltzing Matilda Inn at Cornwall Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui. Both establishments were owned by the same person. According to Stanford, the Arms has a rather mixed clientele, but the Inn can be described as a social “watering hole" for certain of the local homosexual community.
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MacLennan was a regular customer of the Arms, averaging one or two visits a week. According to Stanford, MacLennan rarely spoke to strangers, and he did not recall MacLennan ever bringing a girlfriend or come accompanied by a single Chinese male to the Waltzing Matilda Arms.
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Stanford recalled that, sometime in 1979, he new Eddie, a male prostitute who gave a statement to SIU implicating MacLennan, came in to the Waltzing Matilda Inn and said “hello” to MacLennan who was standing at the bar talking to one or two Europeans. MacLennan acknowledged curtly with a nod, but they did not speak to each other. Stanford formed the impression that he knew Eddie much better than he cared to admit.
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On one occasion MacLennan invited a young waiter called Philip of the Waltzing Matilda Arms for a drink after closing time, but this waiter was persuaded by his colleagues not to go. MacLennan, when he was by himself, was also seem to engage young Chinese waiters in the Arms in long conversations, so much to that Stanford, on one or two occasions, had to stop him from wasting their time.
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Serveral months before MacLennan died, Stanford formed the impression that MacLennan might have been a homosexual. However, when MacLennan was with his European companions, he would adopt an entirely different attitude towards the Chinese waiters: "bombastic", "pompous", "Colonial", "Kiplingesque" and "Churchillian", and he would not indicate any homosexual tendencies.
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After MacLennan's death, his photograph appeared on television. Stanford asked "Jeff", a male prostitute whom Stanford knew, if he knew MacLennan and "Jeff" said he did, without giving details.
35. Findings. Having heard the evidence of MacLennan's friends and colleagues, and also David Lau, eight male prostitutes, Nancy Chan, Ah Tung and Richard Stanford, I am satisfied that MacLennan was bisexual. He appeared to have enjoyed normal sexual relations with women as any normal men do. However, in a rather obscure and most discreet manner, unknown to his European colleagues and friends, he also favoured homosexual practices. MacLennan was a man who led two separate lives: while he led a life of high personal values and principles in front of his friends, and in the course of his constabulary duties, he also led a secret life that was not only against the law, as laid down in Hong Kong, but also against the high moral code that he outwardly professed.
D. MACLENNAN'S SUICIDAL TENDENCY
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It is significant to note Burns' remarks that, in his opinion, if MacLennan was "faced with disgrace in the of his family, disgrace in the eyes of the Police Service, and disgrace in the eyes of his friends, he would take his own life". Burns said that his remark was based partially on "hindsight" and partially on his "knowledge of the character" of MacLennan. He went on to say that:---
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"His family background was such that I believe his parents would not have understood had it been proved he had taken part in homosexual activities, and would have disowned him. Because of the particularly close relationship he had with his mother, he would have found this an impossible burden to carry. Also, Police Service was his life. Had the allegation against him been substantiated, he would have been prevented from serving as a Police Officer. Also, had these allegations been proved, it would have been a complete "about face" of the portrayal he had made to all his friends."
Burns' opinion is shared by Inspector Peter Whyte. On being asked if he thought MacLennan would have taken his own life if his homosexual activities were proven, Whyte said:
"This would not surprise me at all. He was the sort of man who had the strength of character to do this. He had built up a reputation and impression to his friends and colleagues, and would have been too shamed to face them. He could not have faced the opposite portrayal of the character he had built up, to come out."
8 See Richard Stanford's evidence: Transcript pages 7650-7764.