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To:-
Lord Goronwy Roberts
Arthur Latham Esq MP
House Of Cormons
Telephone No. Ext.
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Thank you for your letter of 25 January with which you
enclosed a letter from Mr J.W. Sutton in Bermmada. I am
replying in David Owen's absence.
We have not of course seen the correspondence of
December last between yourself and Mr Sutton but as we all
Yare aware the administration of justice in Bermuda is an
internal matter under the control of the Bermuda Government.
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You may wish to forward to Mr Sutton the attached copy
of David Owen's statement in the House on 5 December 1977
which David Owen said that the Government are prepared
to review the present policy of capital punishment in all
those dependent territories which continue to retain it
despite the requests made in 1965 and
should follow the BTICISIT pattern,
Britİsir
that they
if that is Parliaments wish. We are at present considering
and
ways in which the policy could be changed there appear to
be several possible methods by which this could be achieved,
David Owen intends to bring this before the House in the
near future.
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