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Mr. S. Newena House of Commons, Westminister, London, S.W., United Kingdom.
2th Dec., 1977.
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Dear Mr. Newens,
I am writing you to seek your help to my family and public justice.
My brother, LIU Ping-hon, joined the Hong Kong Government as
en Executive Officer attached to the Yaumati Police Station imme- diately after his graduation from the Philosophy Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in June. On 26th July this year, to my family's utmost grief, he was found dead outside the Hon Ming Building, just opposite to where our family lived.
Ping-hon's death was first classified as suicide by the police. But neither his friends, classmates and staff who knew him, nor my family believed that it was a suicide. Former Ping-hon's university teachers, Dr. Philip Shen and Dr. T. Chen, the Chinese University Student Union and also the Chinese University Newspaper wrote to the Chief Secretariat to appeal for a full investigation.
Subsequently, the case was brought to the Coroner's Court on 27th Sept. But due to the lack of evidence aɛ regard to the circum- stances of his death, the jury returned an ' Open Verdict '.
No further action was then taken by the Hong Kong Government to clarify my brother's death. On our request for help and for pu- blic justice, the Hong Kong Barrister Association submitted an ob- jective report to the Attorney General, Mr. Hobley, to request for further independent re-investigation. (I enclose the report here for your reference, as it gives a very clear and exact account of
To my utmost disappointment, Mr. Hobley refused a re- investigation. The reason was ' no new evidence has been received
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