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II MA Bristow Esq
Deputy Secretary for Security HONG KONG
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CR 1/M 30/74
НКК 21/5
5 November 1974
Dear Bristow,
MP'S CASE: DEATH OF MR KWAN KUNG
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Lord Goronwy-Roberts's letter of 27 June to Mr R J Carter was copied to Alan Mason. Mr Carter has written again about this case. I enclose copies of his letter and enclosures and of Lord Goronwy-Roberts's reply.
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We notice that Mr Kwan Chung Lam referred in earlier papers to the existence of an "eye-witness", and suggested that her evidence was disregarded. In your commentaries to us, you have not so far covered this point or said what weight, if any, was given to the witness's evidence (if indeed there was such evidence and it suggested negligence or criminal negligence on the part of the car driver).
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Perhaps you would cover this aspect in your reply together with any further comments on the latest allegations?
Yours ever,
Andrew St
AC Stuart
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.
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The Rt Hon The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
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You wrote to Joan Lestor on 27 October enclosing further correspondence you have received from Mr Kwan Chung Lam of
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reace Avenue (ground floor, rear flat), Kowloon, about the death of his father, Mr Kwan Kung. I have asked the Hong Kong Government for their further comments on r Kwan Chung Lam's latest statements, and will get in touch with you again when I hear from them. But I am bound to say that, apart from the suggestion that there was an eye-witness whose evidence was disregarded, there does not seem to be much in Br Kwan's letter which has not already been covered in my advice from Hong Kong and in my letter to you of 27 June.
I am also somewhat distrubed at the covering letter from a gentleman at the "Christ the Worker Catholic Church" in Hong Kong. lle suggests that this is a small matter to the Foreign Office and the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, and goes on to compare the case with Watergate. I am sure you will agree that my previous letter shows that I regard this and all other such cases with due seriousness. You will also have realised, from the details in my letter, that the Hong Kong Government have already gone to considerable lengths to try to verify the allegations made by Mr Kwan. So far they have failed, but Mr Kwan and his friends have no justification for suggesting that either Government is covering up the truth. Like us, they were not present when Ar Kwan Kung was so sadly killed. In assessing what happened, none of us have anything to go upon except the available evidence.
RJ Carter Esq MP House of Commons SWI
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