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for Buggery), Superintendent Brooks and Chief Inspector Quinn of the SIU, Magistrates Daniell and Rattigan, Mrs. Elsie Elliott, the Governor, the Commissioner of Police Mr. Roy Henry, The Director of Criminal Investigation Mr. P.J. Clancy, Miss Claire Marie Beeson, Crown Councel and the Attorney General and Warwick Haldane. In the final paragraph of the letter Lindsay makes some very serious allegations against Chief Inspector Quinn, Senior Police officers and the Attorney General.
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On 10.2.80 Mr. M.N.W. Pelly, the officer responsible for conducting this enquiry recorded a statement from Howard Lindsay as he was passing through Hong Kong from the Philippines to the U.S.A. Lindsay was shown a copy of the letter he had written to the Coroner on 28th January, the original of which he verified he had written. He stated that the bulk of the letter is hearsay from Michael Fulton and to a lesser extent from Henry Daniell, Michael Rattigan and Elsie Elliott. He also clarified part of page 4 of the letter referring to possible charges that he advised Fulton to instigate against Brooks and Quinn. He states that he kept Elsie Elliott informed of the situation as well as Daniell and Rattigan and that the latter two advised him that there was a prima facie case against Quinn and Brooks. Henry Daniell also told him that he intended mentioning the matter to the deceased.
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On page 4 and 5 he states that he mentions phone tapping but he says he has no direct evidence of this. He states that he only advised Fulton as to what to do but left the action to be taken to him.
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He states that he does not know the exact cause of the deceased's death and that he has never met or spoken to him, but he says that he would be surprised if the deceased did not know that investigations into his private life were going on as it was talked about freely by members of the Judiciary. He also comments on the use of prosecution witnesses who have admitted in statements that they were prostitutes and blackmailers referring to the case against himself. He finally comments that it is apparent that a blind eye has been turned against those too senior to prosecute.
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Mr. Lindsay left Hong Kong shortly after Mr. Pelly took the statement from him having stated that he would not be in Hong Kong for the Inquest.
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Miss Clare Marie Beeson, Crown Counsel will state that she met Howard Lindsay before his trial and the subject of Michael Fulton was discussed amongst other things. Later at this meeting a man whom she later learnt to be Fulton arrived and the subject of Fulton's being pressured by Quinn was
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