TNAG-0401-FCO40-447-Review-of-the-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 149

From the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

17 May, 1973

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I wrote to you on 10 May about the case of Mr. Tsoi Kwok-cheong in Hong Kong.

You will perhaps by now know that the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary forwarded Mr. Tsoi's petition to The Queen recommending Her Majesty to grant à conditional pardon commuting the sentence of death to one of life imprisonment. The Queen has now signed the Instrument of Pardon.

James Lamond, Esq., J.P., M.P.,

House of Commons,

London,

S.W.1.

Anthony Royle