TNAG-0073-FCO40-109-Dismissal-from-police-force-petition-from-Chu-Leung-1968 — Page 17

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Speaking Notes for the Minister of State for his meeting with Mr. Patrick Jenkin, M.P. at 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday 18

September

Sergeant Chu Leung

The Minister might begin by explaining

that it was only relatively recently that he

himself had become involved in this matter.

Throughout August he had been busy holding the

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colleagues and he had been away during the

early part of September. Nevertheless, he

realised that there had been a very considerable

delay in dealing with Mr. Jenkin's enquiry

which he regretted and for which he accepted

responsibility.

2. The Minister might go on to say that he

had taken a close personal interest in the case

because Sergeant Chu Leung was a police officer

with nearly thirty years' service and the

Minister wanted to be quite sure that there

had been no miscarriage of justice in his

dismissal. There was one point which he

wished to clarify and which arose out of

Mrs. Hart's letter of 1 March, 1967, to

Mr. Jenkin. That letter had stated that

Chu Leung had been dismissed following

disciplinary proceedings on charges of

disloyalty. This statement might have given

rise to some misunderstanding.

The charges

on which Chu Leung had been found guilty were

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