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Mrs. E. Elliott,

216, Prince Edvard Road, Kowloon.

Madam,

2nd March,

L/647/70

· AGC 4/400/65

REPLY PO (169

REPLIED BY

No one has sought to prevent you making public anything which is a proper subject for disclosure. So please do not seek to use this as a threat.

2.

If you are contemplating giving publicity to this matter, it may be as well to summarize the relevant facts as they appear from the correspondence :

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(a) Your letter of the 7th November 1970 referred to an allegation of rape of a young girl by a named individual, and to the fact that this individual

had been brought to court, but was not charged on the instructions of this department;

(b) in my reply of the 11th November I stated that I

was satisfied that the discretion as to whether to prosecute had been properly exercised by the Director of Public Prosecutions;

(c) your next letter of this subject dated 21st December

referred to a further accusation of rape of another small girl against the same individual, vhich had been reported to the Sai Ying Pun Police Station, and also contained allegations that the Police were in the habit of suppressing facts when submitting files

to this department;

(d) my reply of the 11th January informed you that

investigations had failed to uncover any such report being made to any police station in the Western

District; therefore even now the Police have no

details as to the name of this alleged victim, -ete.

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