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Registry No.

HKK 14/6 DRAFT

LETTER

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

To:-

Ivor Richard Esq QC MP House of Commons London SW1

Type 1

FROM

Secretary of State

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

Letter

despatched by

ivate Secretary's Dept

I wrote to you on 4 May about the petition to

man

The Queen by a condemned man in Hong Kong,

Mr Tsoi Kwok-cheong.

(probably by now

You will wat to know that I advised Her Majesty

to grant a conditional pardon, commuting the

sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.

The Queen has now signed the Instrument of Pardon.

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

21 MAY 1073

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