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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH

- 5 JAN 1978

ALLOCATIONS SECTION

HKC 380/1

Dr. David Owen,

Foreign Office, Whitehall,

London sw

RECEIVED IN PERISYRY NO. 51

.- 9 JAN 1978

DESK OFFICER

REGISTRY

PA

Action Taker

INDEX

No

Dear

Sir,

1

would

like

to

know

OFFICE

21

Station Road,

Amersham,

Bucks., HPY GBG.

Telephone: Amersham 22679

13th December 1977

Ack. reply to follow 2) Hko Gen. to re

HK:

See (38)

reply

sws/.

the details of the expenditure

incurred by the British Government by the act of allowing two

murderers to

WGS the

be hanged

M

Bermuda. Firstly, there

expense of sending necessary? Also, hangman;

why

does

a hang

the public still

man from Britain, was it really

have to employ

as \ am

sure

that

are aware

there have been

your

very few hangings in Britain of late. Secondly, the troops, also

sent from Britain, that

the hangings, must

were employed in

have cost

O

I would like to

point out

expenditure could have been

the

riots following

that the whole of this

lot of money.

avoided by taking the opinion

of the majority of the Islanders, and by implementing it accordingly. Also, the petition that

Islanders

could

caution than

1 await

have

been

was presented by the

treated with rather

simple rejection.

your answer,

Yours faithfully

P.J.M. Grath

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