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ALLEGATION OF "FRAME-UP"
112.
On 19.1.80 the Sun newspaper published a headline which read "'Suicide' cop was framed". Mr. T. Coombs of the Police Public Relations Wing will state that this article referred to the deceased and quoted Mr. Elsie Elliott as making an allegation that the deceased was the victim of a high powered Police frame-up because he had investigated homosexual offences involving high ranking Policemen. The paper referred to the deceased's previous dismissal and reinstatement and stated that Mrs. Elliott had made a report three weeks previously to the Attorney General on another alleged frame-up. The paper also stated that it was believed that the deceased shot himself because of the latest persecution. The newspaper called for an enquiry. A copy of the letter Mr. Elsie Elliott sent to the Governor on 28th November 1978 appeared on an inside page of the same newspaper. The original allegation of a frame-up in connection with the deceased's alleged involvement with a Chinese youth in Yuen Long and his subsequent dismissal and reinstatement has been dealt with in paras 6 to 24 of this covering report. Mr. Coombs will also refer to the Radio Television Hong Kong Open Line Programme of 23.1.80 where Mrs. Elliott thought that the suicide of the deceased may have been murder. He will also refer to the Aileen Bridgewater Show on Commercial Radio of 24th January 1980 where Mrs. Elliott refers in detail to an alleged Police frame-up involving the deceased.
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Mrs. Elliott will state that in about October 1979% a man called Howard Lindsay who was awaiting trial on homosexual charges rang her up and said that he was being framed by the same man who was now framing others. She will state that now she knows that by others he meant the deceased and that he person who was doing the framing was Quinn (Chief Inspector Quinn of the Special Investigation Unit). She will state that Lindsay had telephoned her a number of times. He said that Quinn and Brooks (Superintendent in charge of the Special Investigation Unit) were on a witch hunt, that the process of selection was very selective, and that it depended if the person yielded to blackmail. Lindsay also said that a Police Inspector was under considerable pressure as he was a practising homosexual with consenting adults only. He said that Brooks and Quinn knew this and that they would take no action against him if he gave them information about other homosexuals. The Inspector had refused, saying that he would report Triad activities and procurers of young boys but no consenting adults. Lindsay told Mrs. Elliott that Quinn and Brooks had become impatient and that they had told the Inspector to cooperate with with them and that he was to get bays to go to the houses of the Police they were trying to get hold of so that they could secure an arrest. The Inspector refused to agree to this as he considered it the setting up of a crime. Lindsay told Mrs. Elliott that the Inspector became so afraid that he did not know what to do, whether
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