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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: LETTER FROM MISS JOAN LESTOR MP

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$21/12

Miss Lestor has asked the Secretary of State for comments on a letter from one of her constituents. The constituent has questioned the legal basis for the British Government's refusal to intervene to stop the executions in Bermuda and has asked a number of other related questions. Miss Lestor also asked for comments on the apparent contradiction between the present case and what she was told when Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State about the case of Mr Desmond Trotter who was sentenced to death in Dominica in November 1974.

2. WIAD and the departmental legal adviser concur.

21 December 1977

J A B Stewart

Hong Kong & General Dept

HKG. 380/1

Mr Duff (WIAD)

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