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However we have now reached the case of Liu Chu (records
attached) where neither we nor the Home Office can find any good
grounds for a reprieve. (My letter to Prior of 7 January, FCO
telegram no. 33 of 11 January and Prior's reply of 17 January.)
7. I have now sent the Home Office comments to Hong Kong and
have asked that the questions in Mr Prior's third paragraph about
the prisoner's mental state and circumstances should be urgently
examined. If, as seems likely, the reply to these last points
reveals no mitigating circumstances, we will have to submit the
case and its implications to the Secretary of State. My
recommendation would then be that the crunch case had arrived and
that FCO Ministers should decide on political grounds whether to
advise their colleagues to support the Governor's decision or to
change the law. A DOPC paper would then be required.
8.
The Governor has asked for an FCO Ministerial view by
5 February. Whether we can give this will depend on whether he
is able to answer the Home Office's residual questions in time.
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I recommend that we should take no decision er further
aetion until these answers are received.
25 January 1974
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A C Stuart
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.
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