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The former room boy "Ah Lam" is, therefore, certainly not the only witness whose evidence is available to the Commission in this matter.
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Lord Goronwy-Roberts finds it "unfortunate" that I "made no reference to the incidents" I describe in my statement "until some 2 years" after I left the Hongkong Police.
I have already explained more than once in the course of communications, which are, presumably, on file, why I did not make any "reference" to the "incidents" I describe in my statement whilst I was in Hongkong.
Such reference would, at that time, have had to be addressed to the very authority against which my charge was made.
I feared that the first, and, almost certainly, only result of any such initiative on my part whilst I was in the Police, and even whilst I was still in the Colony, would have been to provoke reprisals against me.
Subsequent history has surely proved to the hilt that my fears were neither idle nor exaggerated in any way whatsoever.
It is surely asking too much of any reasonably independent critic to believe that unscrupulous and highly placed officers of the Crown now known to have been, at the relevant time, busily engaged in amassing fabulous fortunes by corrupt and illicit abuse of their official powers, would have allowed a junior policeman on probation, subject to their unchallengeable authority, to interfere with impunity in their criminal activities.
As much, in fact, as asking the most naive and gullible onlooker to believe that a recruit awarded a Baton of Honour for outstanding merit on one day could, on the next day, be credibly and justifiably be found so wanting in the very qualities for which he had been rewarded for possessing as to render him unworthy of retention and all that without any allegation of turpitude or misconduct being made against him, then or on any occasion whatever in all the twelve years that have ensued since this remarkable event.
My answer to Lord Goronwy-Roberts on this point is that I brought the "incidents" to the official notice of the very Ministry for which he is now the Parliamentary Under Secretary immediately upon my return to this country and just as soon as I felt secure, beyond the immediate reach of revengeful action.
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