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14/6

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

LETTER

DRAFT

To:-

Ivor Richard, QC, MP

House of Commons,

Type 1 +

FROM

Secretary of State

Telephone No. Ext.

London SW 1

Department

I wrote to you on 4 May about the petition

to The Queen by a condemned man in Hong Kong

Mr Tsoi Kwok-cheong.

You will wish I know

This letter is to inform you that

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resemmended Her Majestý to grant a conditional

pardon,commuting the sentence of death to one

of life imprisonment. The Queen has now

signed the Instrument of Pardon.