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HKK

Registry No.

LETTER

14/16

DRAFT

| SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

To:-

Type 1 +

The Rt. Hon Lord Gardiner Chairman of the Council JUSTICE

12 Crane Court

Fleet Street,

LONDON EC 4

FROM

Secretary of State Telephone No. Ext.

Department

enclosing

Thank you for your letter of 10 May sending

me a copy of the Telex message which you had

sent to the Governor, Hong Kong about the death

L

sentence on TSOI Kwok-cheong.

Mr Tsoi petitioned The Queen for the

exercise of Her Residual Prerogative of Mercy.

has been pleasen

I recommende

nded Her Majesty to grant a conditional

pardon commuting the sentence of death to one of

life imprisonment,

Instrument of Pardon.

The Queen has signed the