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Shortly after the meeting mentioned above, there was another brief meeting at the Imperial Hotel.

(5) Two or three weeks later, Quinn arranged a meeting at the Kowloon Bowling Club. Brooks, Quinn and Fulton met. Quinn mentioned that certain persons had given statements against Fulton so now they had evidence against him. Quinn mentioned two persons' names and asked Fulton what would Fulton do if they "were put into court" with him. Fulton replied that he had never had anything to do with one of them. Fulton in fact had slept with the other one but Quinn did not question Fulton about him. Through Fulton, the SIU obtained a lot of names and contacts (with pen pictures). All these names were entered into the SIU records called the Black Book. Fulton was told that the SIU was looking for boys whom Duffy had been with and also for procurers and Fulton agreed to help. He was regarded as a very valuable informer for the SIU.

(6) About two weeks later, Brooks, Quinn and Fulton again met at the Kowloon Bowling Club. Quinn had had a few drinks and said he did not believe what Fulton was telling them. Quinn said Fulton was "stringing them along". Quinn also said, "Don't be smart with me. If we find you are still shitting us we will drop you in it" or words of a similar import. But Quinn, though asked, failed to give specific incidents to support his accusation. Brooks only said, "Yes, you have been stringing us along." Fulton was very upset. The next day he spoke with Trotman, who thought Brooks and Quinn were over-zealous in taking Fulton away from his duties and in trying to squeeze information out of him. Fulton then decided to see Brooks alone and find out the reason for Quinn's attitude towards him. At one of the meetings at the Kowloon Bowling Club at the end of 1978 or beginning of 1979, Brooks said to Fulton that the Director of Public Prosecutions had said if Fulton was prepared to sign a statement admitting his homosexuality and stating that he was assisting the SIU, then he would be offered an immunity. Fulton refused, because he did not believe an immunity could be given and he did not want to sign anything which could later be used against him.

(7) Brooks and Fulton met at the Hilton Hotel. Fulton said he could not understand why Quinn thought he was lying. Fulton said he was not going to reveal names of personal homosexual friends who lived discreet lives in their own homes. Referring to Quinn, Brooks said, “OK,well, don't worry. You know old Mick, he drinks a bit and he gets a bit excited.” Brooks said Quinn was unduly harsh on Fulton. Brooks also said that the original agreement stood (i.e. the agreement not to arrest Fulton if he assisted the SIU in the three spheres of trafficking and procuration, triads and blackmail).

(8) There was another meeting at the Kowloon Bowling Club with Brooks and Quinn. Fulton could not recall what was discussed. According to Fulton, soon after Inspector MacLennan's reinstatement, Quinn said MacLennan had dropped a lot of names and pulled a lot of strings and had played dirty. Quinn denied having said that. On balance, I find that Quinn did not utter those words at that meeting, though he might well have uttered words of a similar import at a later meeting. (Towards the end of 1978 at one of the meetings Brooks or Quinn indicated to him that an inspector would soon be dismissed for some kind of trouble but it had nothing to do with the SIU. Shortly after that Fulton heard of MacLennan's “dismissal” for homosexuality. Brooks and Quinn did not mention MacLennan's name).

(9) In January 1979 there was a short meeting between Fulton, Brooks and Quinn at the Imperial Hotel. Fulton is

unable to recall what was discussed.

(10) Again in January 1979 there was another meeting with Brooks and Quinn at the Kowloon Bowling Club. Molo Tsui's name again came up. They gave the impression that they were "hot on his (Molo Tsui's) trail.” They also said they were looking into Gordon Huthart.

(11) There was no contact during the period from January to mid-June 1979. In mid-June 1979 at the Wine and Cheese Bar, Quinn told Fulton that a new Attorney General had arrived in Hong Kong and as a result the SIU investigations had been revived.

(12) In July 1979, Fulton met Quinn and Inspector Graham at the Wine and Cheese Bar. It was the first meeting at which Graham was present. According to Fulton, Quinn told Fulton he knew that MacLennan had approached Raymond Lam (Fulton's boyfriend) and Fulton was stunned as to how Quinn could have known. Brooks later learned of the Raymond Lam incident. Quinn however said in his evidence that he was told about this incident by Graham and he had no way of knowing this fact beforehand. One of the purposes of the meeting was to ascertain the identity of one "Howard” (a statement previously recorded by Graham referred to a Howard) and Fulton said it was Howard Lindsay. According to Graham's evidence some general conversation followed, then Fulton told Graham about MacLennan's approach to Raymond Lam. My view is that Fulton was confused on this point. Having regad to McDaid's assessment of Fulton's character (see below), in my view Fulton's confusion was such that he genuinely believed that he was told about the incident by Quinn. In my view, the evidence of Quinn and Graham is more probable and I accept it (for details of the Raymond Lam incident, see Chapter 5 Section C). At the same meeting, Quinn said he had a photograph of Fulton taking a 15 year old boy up the backstairs of the Homantin Service Flats. Fulton was not shown the photograph and denied ever taking a 15 year old boy up the flats. After this meeting, Fulton went to Malaysia for a holiday.