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HONG KONG: DEATH SENTENCES: LETTER FROM THE HON GEOFFREY RIPPON MP
Kr Geoffrey Rippon QC MP (Conservative Hexhan) rote to Or Tomlinson on 17 May enclosing a letter from a constituent about the death sentences passed in Hong Kong on two British soldiers, Gunner Puttock and Trooper Bassett. In his reply of 30 Day Lord Goronwy-Roberts promised to write to ir Rippon again when the outcome of the petitions for clemency to the Governor was know.
2. Hong Kong have now reported that Puttock and Bassett's petitions for clemency were considered by the Executive Council on 5 July. On the Council's advice the Governor ordered that the sentences of death should be commuted to life imprisonment.
I submit a draft letter to Mr Rippon for Lord Goron y-Roberts' si nature.
6 July 1977
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/r Tomlinson
Capt Rose (PS2B (Army)) Ar Attewell (News Dept)
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