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Telephone X3400 2-2587

RECEIVED IN

Deputy Governor's OffiREGISTRY. 41

Ref. DGO 1/1

HS H Stanley Esq

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London

Dear Hiny,

Hamilton 5-24. Bermuda

26 APR 1977

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14 April 1977

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2. I leave you to ser do stron As requested in your telegram number Personal 7 and promised in my telegram number Personal 8, both of 13 April, I am now enclosing copies of the relevant papers in the Burrows/Tacklyn cases. These are:

(a) all those listed at 1-15 in Annex II to my letter

DGO 1/1 of 7 February to you;

P(ii) the Court of Appeal judgment dismissing Tacklyn's

appeal;

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psychiatrist), both dated 15 March 1977, one dealing as com with Burrows and the second with Tacklyn;

R (iv) two further reports by the Prison Medical Officer,

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both dated 9 March 1977, one dealing with Burrows and and the other with Tacklyn;

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a memorandum (DGO 1/1 of 7 March 1977) which I addressed hi

to members of the Advisory Committee, with details of another petition received in respect of Burrows; and (vi) a letter which Burrows sent to Sir Edwin Leather on or

about 22 February 1977 (it was undated), expressing regret that he did not kill "more of the english colonial scum"

With one exception all the papers mentioned above have been, or are now being, distributed to members of the Advisory Committee. The exception is (vi). On the advice of the Commissioner of Police Sir Edwin Leather instructed, with the concurrence of the Governor's Council and of the Attorney-General, that that particular paper should be withheld until the Committee actually met to consider the

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