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Mr Burns
PS/Mr Goodlad
Private Secretary
LORRAIN OSMAN
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From:
Date:
CC:
G W Hewitt
South East Asian Department
5 May 1992
PS/PUS
Sir J Coles
Mr Ricketts, HKD
Mr Eaton, Legal Counsellor
Mr Underwood, C7 Division,
Home Office
HKD 384/1..
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Problem
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1.
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Dr S Watts of Oxford Polytechnic has written to the Secretary of State as his MP, enclosing a "fact sheet" from the Free Lorrain Osman Campaign. Mr Alan Haselhurst MP has written to
Mr Lennox-Boyd, enclosing a constituent's letter which covers a copy of the same document. How to reply?
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Secretary of State send a brief reply to Dr Watts, making clear that the matters raised have been considered
I recommend that Mr Goodlad reply
I submit draft letters.
exhaustively in the courts.
similarly to Mr Haselhurst.
3.
HKD, Legal Advisers and the Home Office concur.
Background
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4. Lorrain Osman, a Malaysian businessman, has been held on remand in the UK, pending extradition to Hong Kong to face charges of serious fraud and corruption, since December 1985. Mr Osman has
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