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BEEN WITHDRAWN AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LONG-TERM PRISONERS

SERVING PRISON SENTENCES FOR OFFENCES WHICH TOOK PLACE UNDER

EMERGENCY LEGISLATION WHILE IT WAS IN FORCE. IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES

AND IN THE LIGHT OF CHANGED CONDITIONS THE GOVERNOR HAS THEREFORE DIRECTED THE BOARD OF REVIEW TO EXAMINE THE RECORDS OF ALL PRISONERS

CURRENTLY SERVING FOUR YEARS OR MORE IN PRISON FOR OFFENCES CONNECTED WITH THE 1967 DISTURBANCES TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IN INDIVIDUAL CASES WHICH MIGHT JUSTIFY A REMISSION

OF SENTENCE.

7. SUCH A REVIEW DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT PEOPLE SENTENCED UNDER EMERGENCY LAWS WILL AUTOMATICALLY HAVE THEIR SENTENCES REDUCED SINCE MANY OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS THE PARTICULAR TYPE OF OFFENCE INVOLVED, THE CONDUCT OF THE PRISONER AND, POSSIBLY, OTHER CRIMES OF WHICH HE WAS FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED AT THE SAME TIME HAVE

TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. UNQUOTE.

FCO PLEASE PASS ROUTINE PEKING.

SIR D. TRENCH

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F.E.D.

H.K.D.

SIR J. JOHNSTON

MR. MORETON

SIR A. GALSWORTY

P.U.S.D.

P.S.

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