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Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers
PETITION TO THE QUEEN: MADAM LI YUE-XIAI
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I HAVE FOR OUR OR: MADAM LI YUB-XIAT
I have received the attached petition from one Madam Li Yue-Xiai on behalf of her son Mr Mok Kwong-Yuen. Mok was imprisoned at the age of 18 for murder and as a minor was not sentenced but "detained until Her Majesty's pleasure be known". Madam Li is asking for her son's early release has served 6 years so far.
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2. Under CRS 169-171, we have received material considered by the Governor to be relevant to the case. The Governor has recommended that the petition be rejected.
3. As the Attorney-General points out in the attached note, Madam Li's petition is made solely on compassionate grounds and no legal issues which might justify an early release are raised. The accompanying reports all conclude that there is no merit in Madam Li's petition and that there is no reason to release Mok (or in the view of the Commissioner of Police, to give him a determinate sentence I would be grateful for your views before forwarding the petition to the Secretary of State under DSP Vol 4 Chapter 9.5.
4 January 1991
Gill Coglin
G J Coglin (Ms)
Hong Kong Department WH 312 270 2652
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legal wives. I recommend the Sfs. replies in the terms & DSP
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Vol 8, para. 9.5.5. apart from the reply.
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