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LETTER
Lt Col the Rt Hon Sir Martin Charteris KCB KCVO OBE
Private Secretary to The Queen
Buckingham Palace
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FROM
Private Secretary
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
PETITION TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN FROM HONG KONG
I attach for submission to Her Majesty a petition
for mercy from TSOI Kwok-cheong, a convicted
prisoner in Hong Kong. The petitioner was
convicted of/murder on 22 November 1972. His
appeal was/dismissed on 21 December 1972. He
demency under petitioned to the Governor for the exereise of
the powers of pardon or reprieve delegated to him
(The Royal Audmist was under the Letters Patent, and Royal Instructions cruddered the matter in acerrima with the provision
The Governor decided on 10 April 197
that the law should take its course. [The petitioner
was convicted of murder in the course of a gang
off-duty
robbery. He stabbed to death a young fauxiliary
when the talle
policeman who went to the assistance of his mother
Mctitioner who was being robbed by the petitioner. The latter
was 28 years old and was not suffering from any
degree of diminished responsibility. It was not a
pre-meditated or planned murder, but murder resulting
from the reckless use of a lethal weapon in further-
ance of robbery. Thés latter type of potentially
murderous assault is a matter of special concern
to the public and the Government of Hong Kong.
Violent crime in Hong Kong has increased by over
four year e per cent in the last and the predominantly
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