TNAG-0400-FCO40-446-Review-of-the-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 8

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

Registry

No. HKK 14/16

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

DRAFT

LETTER

To:-

The Rt Hon Lord Gardiner

Chairman of Council

JUSTICE

12 Crane Court

Type 1 +

FROM

Secretary of State

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

.In Confidence

Fleet Street

London EC4

As I expect that

will You now

know

Thank you for your letter of 10 May enclosing

a copy of the Telex message which you had sent

to the Governor of Hong Kong about the death

sentence on TSOI Kwok-cheong.

Mr Tsoi petitioned The Queen for the exercise

of Her Residual Prerogative of Mercy. I recommended

Her Majesty to grant a conditional pardon commuting

the sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.

The Queen has signed the Instrument of Pardon.

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