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Mr Male

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PS/Lord Goronwy-Roberts

MP'S LETTER:

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TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN HONG KONG

Mr RJ Carter MP wrote to Miss Lestor on 27 October

enclosing further correspondence which he had received from Hong Kong about the death of Mr Kwan Kung. In his reply dated

5 November, Lord Goronwy-Roberts told Mr Carter he would get in touch again when we had received comments from the Hong Kong Government. These comments have now arrived.

2.

The background to this case was set out in Mr Crowson's (3) submission of 17 June. Lord Goronwy-Roberts's letter to Mr Carter

dated 27 June was based on Hong Kong telegram no. 75 and on the Deputy Secretary for Security's letter of 4 June. I pointed out in my submission of 31 October that, except for the suggestion that there had been an eye-witness of the accident whose evidence had been disregarded, the latest letter from Mr Kwan Chung Lam (Mr Kwan Kung's son) seemed to be little more than a rehearsal of the allegations that had already been carefully investigated in Hong Kong.

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In his letter of 27 November the Deputy Secretary for Security says that a statement by the "eye-witness" was included in the death report submitted to the Coroner, but that this was of no use in establishing the chain of events before the accident, since the lady did not see what happened in the vital seconds leading up to it.

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Mr Carter has already been told that the case has been very thoroughly investigated. Lord Goronwy-Roberts can now confirm that the evidence of the "eye-witness" has not been disregarded, but otherwise there is little to add.

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