Kevin Cahill
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Sir John Coles KCMG,
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1.
3rd Sept 1991.
Dear Sir John,
Copy:
Signed
Kevin Faust
Irregular activities of the law officers in Hong
Kong.
I have before me a report of the Layton trial,recently
completed in Hong Kong. From the transcript it appears that the
senior law officers in Hong Kong, the Attorney General and the
DPP, were in the habit of offering large sums of money to 'recover'
fugatives from other countries around the region.
I do not need to point out to you that, once off the
territory of Hong Kong, and on the territory of another state,
such activities constitute the crime of bribery and kidnapping.
Is it the policy of HMG to encourage senior officials to procure
the commission of serious crime in the territory of friendly
states? If it is, would you let me know what statute authorises
this activity ?.
As you know, the deputy DPP in HK at the time covered by
the matter in the Layton trial is now a convicted crook. However, it
was the other two law officers who, in apparent defiance of the
Governors misgivings, ordered the prosecution of Lorrain Osman
by the jailed Reid. That they were both engaged in suspect, even
criminal activities themselves, only adds to the well chronicled
history of irregularity in the Osman case. I await your reply
with interest.
cc.FA Ctee. PA.
yous
sinceremy Mein Cahors.