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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1994
POLICE CHARGES BASE ON EVIDENCE
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AND A APSREY, IN
FOLLOWING IS A QUESTION BY THE HON EMILY LAU WAI-HING WRITTEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY):
CHARGE OF THE HAD STATED
QUESTION : IT WAS LEARNT THAT THE POLICE OFFICER IN
INVESTIGATION INTO THE RAPE CASES IN TUEN MUN THAT THE POLICE HAD CHARGED A CITIZEN WITH RAPE AND ROBBERY
ALTHOUGH TO HIS BECAUSE OF POLITICAL PRESSURE,
KNOWLEDGE THERE WAS EVIDENCE INDICATING THE CHARGED MAN WAS INNOCENT. WILL THE GOVERNMENT INFORM THIS COUNCIL WHETHER:
REPLY:
(A)
AN INQUIRY INTO SUCH STATEMENTS HAS AND
BEEN CONDUCTED;
(B)
THE POLICE CHARGE
WILL,
AGAINST
EVIDENCE;
LAY BECAUSE OF ANY SOMEONE EVEN WITHOUT SUFFICIENT THOSE AND WHETHER THE PERSON CHARGED UNDER
EVENTUALLY CIRCUMSTANCES WILL BE COMPENSATED IF HE IS FOUND NOT GUILTY?
PRESSURES,
A
MR PRESIDENT,
(A)
AN INQUIRY
CONDUCTED.
INTO THE STATEMENTS
MENTIONED IS BEING
OFFICER CHARGE OF
THESE STATEMENTS WERE MADE BY AN INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION, BUT NOT IN
IT.
(B) THE POLICE WILL NOT LAY CHARGES AGAINST ANYONE IN
THE
ABSENCE OF SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE: TO DO SO WOULD AMOUNT TO AN ABUSE OF THE PROCESS OF THE COURT.
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