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B.
x)
xi)
alcohol of 52 mgms per cent is negligible in this
respect.
The wounds were multiple which is a most unusual
occurrence in a suicide (but see C1).
I do not believe that MacLennan would have survived
wound number 1 for more than 20 minutes.
He was last
seen alive at approximately 6.00 am on the 15th and
could have been back in his flat by 6.10 a m. Sandra
Hill heard shots between 6.00 and 7.00 a m that morning
and at 10 o'clock a laundry man was unable to obtain
extrance. Medical witnesses estimate the time of
death as being between 6.30 and 7.30 a m. From all the
above I think it reasonable to assume that MacLennan died
between 6.15 a m and 7.30 a m that morning.
CIRCUMSTANCES SUGGESTING THAT THIS WAS A SUICIDAL DEATH:
i)
ii)
To suggest that this was a murder 'rigyed to look like
suicide seems to me to infer that either large numbers
of policemen, 3 pathologists, a ballistics expert and
a hand-writing expert are all either mistaken or are
all involved together in a gigantic conspiracy to
pervert the course of justice and to incriminate
ManLennan. This would be an untenable hypotheses in
the United Kingdom and even if conditions are somewhat
different in Hong Kong, it seems to be that the number
of co-conspirators is far too high to be safe for any
one of them.
Number apart, (and though this is highly unusual as
the literature shows it is not, by any means, unknown
see paragraph C1) the site, range and direction of
ManLennan's wounds are perfectly consistent with self-
infliction.