TNAG-1101-FCO40-1351-Legislation-on-homosexuality-in-Hong-Kong-including--Report--1981 — Page 294

305

AUTOR

1.

My medical qualifications are M.B., B.S., F.R.C.Path.,

D.M.J. (Clin et Path) and I am Professor and Head of the

Department of Forensic Pathology in the University of

Sheffield, Senior Police Surgeon to the South Yorkshire

Constabulary and Consultant Pathologist to the Home Office

for South Yorkshire. Professionally for the past twenty

years I have been concerned full time in the practice of

Forensic Medicine and during that time I have conducted

more than 17,000 post-mortem examinations for Her Majesty's

Coroners on all manner of cases of sudden and unexpected

death and have been concerned in approximately 550 investi-

gations of murder.

COMMISSION

2.

On the 10th June, 1980 I was approached by a Mr Alan Ellis

of 20 Bishop's Close, Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey, acting

on-behalf of a Mrs Elsie Elliott, C.B.E. an elected municipal

councillor in Hong Kong, who asked me to assist in the

investigation into the sudden death of an Inspector in the

Hong Kong Police, John Mac Lennan. I agreed to do this and

subsequently I have received from Mrs Elliott the transcript

of the proceedings of a Coroner's Inquest held before

D J Leonard Esq, commencing on the 29th February, 1980 and

terminating on the 12th March, 1980 with an open verdict.

I have also been sent several newspaper clippings relevant

to the proceedings but have not seen the official post-mortem

report, plans of the flat, or pictures, either of the flat or

of the body during the post-mortem examination.