R. J. Carter Esq., M.P. House of Commons,
London.
10 Peace Avenue, Ground floor,
Rear flat, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
27th August, 1974
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Dear Sir,
Referring to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office letter dated 27th June, 1974 concerning the death of my father KWAN KONG, I would like to comment some of the points that are incorrect. From the third paragraph of that letter it says there is no eye-witness. However a fruit hawker woman admitted she saw the car dashed towards the back of the bicycle with high speed. This was confirmed by the severe damage of the bicycle at the back rather than at any other parts. The impact forced my father to lift off from the bicycle and his head hit on the wind screen of the car. The death was due to the fracture of the skull and cerebral laceration. The eye-witness later was asked several times to see some of the officers with ill- treatments. We are afraid one day she would give up as an eye -witness even though she has signed a declaration what she had seen on that day.
Furthermore, on that day, a police constable took the bicycle to a lane and left it there. We took it back on the next day and kept it at home; about two days later, a police constable asked for it because he said that they forgot to take picture. We were afraid that the police constable might make use of . these pictures, showing the damage parts of the bicycle, to ask for more money from the driver.
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Referring to the paragraph 5 concerning the unsuccessful attempt, I would like to make clear some points. If there were corruption between the driver and the police constable, the official report would not be true or not precisely. was why I personnally tried to find out the fact from the driver. From the tape, when I mentioned about the money he gave on that day was not good enough because the injured man was finally dead, he should immediately say something to deny this wrong doing; but he just closed up his mouth and did not say anything. I could assume he really bribed the police constable on that day even though he did not say 'affirmative'. When I asked for more money, he was willing to pay. concluded he wanted less trouble by using more money.
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