TNAG-0366-FCO40-412-Visits-of-UK-Members-of-Parliament-to-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 15

HK

Pusots

вк

Cutting dated....

DAILY MAIL

Eg SEP 1973.

19

Police chief is accused over

'life of luxury'

A BRITISH police superintendent in Hongkong spent thousands of dol-

Mail Correspondent In Hongkong

at one stage Fiunt had

lars living in style, stayed at Government it was claimed yesterday.

Supt. Ernest Hunt, a one-time PC on the beat in the Glamor- gan force, was said in court at Hongkong to have kept two serv- ants, bought three cars-two of them Jaguars-and run up phone bills of about £385.

Hunt is accused under the colony's Prevention of Bribery Ordnance of liv- ing beyond his means be- tween May 14, 1971, and February 14, 1973. He pleads not guilty.

The prosecutor said that

expense in a £4.10 hotel room, but he moved into £9.25 accommodation and himself paid the differ- ence, totalling £400.

He later moved into a flat which cost him £135 more than his rent allow- ance and he took on the two servants at a total salary of £77 a month,

School

He bought his own furniture, costing about £900. He also bought four air-conditioners, a washing machine and a colour TV.

In 1272 he took out a his standing order at bank for £100 a month to pay his bills,

The prosecutor said that Hunt, who had a son at a preparatory school in

England, another at a public school and & daughter at A Swiss

nishing school, ran up about £390 worth of veterinarian bills for his three dogs.

The case continues.

Footnote: A superin- tendent in the Hongkong police earns between £330 and £435 a month, de- pending on length of service.

In London, Mr Tom Pendry, Labour MP fo

and Stalybridge

Hyde, said after a month's visit in Hongkong that there is 'growing anti- British feeling' over the case of Chief Supt. Peter Godber who is alleged to have amassed an unexplained £330,000 while serving in Hongkong.

Mr Pendry is to urge Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to 'do something positive.' Mr Godber, for whom an arrest warrant was issued in Hongkong, is now liv- ing in Rye, Sussex.

IK.

Page 15Page 16