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AUTOR
1.
My medical qualifications are M.B., B.S., F.R.C.Path.,
D.M.J. (Clin et Path) and I am Professor and Head of the
Department of Forensic Pathology in the University of
Sheffield, Senior Police Surgeon to the South Yorkshire
Constabulary and Consultant Pathologist to the Home Office
for South Yorkshire. Professionally for the past twenty
years I have been concerned full time in the practice of
Forensic Medicine and during that time I have conducted
more than 17,000 post-mortem examinations for Her Majesty's
Coroners on all manner of cases of sudden and unexpected
death and have been concerned in approximately 550 investi-
gations of murder.
COMMISSION
2.
On the 10th June, 1980 I was approached by a Mr Alan Ellis
of 20 Bishop's Close, Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey, acting
on-behalf of a Mrs Elsie Elliott, C.B.E. an elected municipal
councillor in Hong Kong, who asked me to assist in the
investigation into the sudden death of an Inspector in the
Hong Kong Police, John Mac Lennan. I agreed to do this and
subsequently I have received from Mrs Elliott the transcript
of the proceedings of a Coroner's Inquest held before
D J Leonard Esq, commencing on the 29th February, 1980 and
terminating on the 12th March, 1980 with an open verdict.
I have also been sent several newspaper clippings relevant
to the proceedings but have not seen the official post-mortem
report, plans of the flat, or pictures, either of the flat or
of the body during the post-mortem examination.