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instructor at the Police Training School in 1962 advised his class, of which as a member, that were we as policemen to face a problem from a certain public figure, a lawyer, at some time in the courts, we should not worry because the police held on him a file "that thick" (he indicated a thick file).) The "sex practices" testimony was not pursued but the seed had been sown and, as I have said above, the public figure had already abandoned his support for the threat of an external inquiry into government corruption.
This left as target for the conspirators Mrs Elliott. Intelligence must have prevailed for once and no attempt was made to suggest that Mrs Elliott engaged in homosexual practices. But how was she dealt with by the conspirators?
Firstly, the principal police informer alleged that she had paid $5,000 to young boys to incite riot, attributing his claim to Lo Kei who it was he said had told him about this while they were in prison together. From London Mrs Elliott denied the allegation. Lo Kei, later in testimony, claimed he had signed blank statement sheets and a statement implicating Mrs Elliott under inducement and duress so to do, at Mongkok Police Station. These statements (over which there was much a to do at the Tribunal and which if memory serves me correctly were not available) had been obtained by the CID but upon their existence being made known to Police Headquarters the Special Eranch were ordered to look further into the matter. To the SB officers, who Lo Kei testified he had trusted because they were from the "political police" and not the CID, Lo Kei gave a retraction of the allegation he said he had been forced to make. Testifying against him, the SB officers suggested he was a person given to histrionics and delusions, for which reason he had originally made his claims.
Mrs Elliott voluntarily appeared before the Tribunal, her purpose being to prevent Lo Kei becoming a lone victim of the CID plot. Before appearing she made it clear to the Tribunal that she would not identify a policeman from whom, indirectly, she had early in the riots received information that a CID plot had been hatched, hinged on Lo Kei who, according to the source, in Mongkok Station had been subjected to offers of a government post and also to beating up so that he would supply the evidence, fabricated, for a move against Elsie Elliott. The incidents at the police station became known as the "Mongkok Plot" although the conspiracy stretched to the Triad Society Bureau of the CID in Police Headquarters.
Nevertheless the Tribunal allowed Mrs Elliott to stand witness and be subjected to a vicious cross-examination by counsel for the police, after securing which the Tribunal dismissed her for contempt for her not identifying the witness she had told them in advance she would not identify. In sending her for judgment to
Chief the "bar of public ophion" (where llogan's "right-minded" people soon after re-elected Elsie Elliott with a greatly increased majority) the Tribunal blocked two threats: firstly, it prevented her introducing other evidence from other witnesses indicating the existence of the CID plot; secondly, after the Tribunal itself had sought unsuccessfully to have Mrs Elliott's legal representatives removed, the principal police agent was not recalled to be re-examined.
What was that other evidence? Who were the other witnesses? The youth Lee Tak-yee, a person taking part in the disturbances who had a criminal record, testified at the Tribunal that Superintendent E.P.M.Hunt had asked him to help him (Hunt) "frame" Mrs Elliott. This was in effect all the evidence apart from Lo Kei's that the public saw of the CID plot, direct evidence that is. The rest, as I say, was blocked. This, below, is part of it.
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Two British CID officers from Police Headquarters, with the knowledge and approval of
who was then in command of the CID's Triad Society Bureau, visited police agent's mother at her home in Tsimshatsui one evening after office hours during the life of the Tribunal. They took with them mone; for a specific purpose. The mother was in this period also visiting them several times in their office in Police Headquarters. When these contacts became known to a very senior British CID officer he told the two inspectors to draw new official diaries and
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