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(a) are there good grounds for believing Inspector MacLennan's

death was other than suicide ?

(b) what shortcomings, if any, were there in the police

investigations immediately after Inspector MacLennan's

death and if there were shortcomings, what were the

reasons for them ? Were the persons making these

investigations properly motivated?

(c) were the charges which were about to be preferred against

Inspector MacLennan on the day of his death properly

brought ? Was the evidence upon which those charges

were based properly obtained? Were the persons who

obtained that evidence properly motivated? Were the

persons who were about to prefer the charges properly

motivated ?

(d) what other police investigations regarding Inspector

MacLennan and relating to homosexuality were conducted

between the beginning of 1978 and the date of his death ?

Were such enquiries conducted with propriety? Did they

have any bearing on his death ? Were the persons

conducting such enquiries properly motivated ?

reference."

All matters other than the above are outside the terms of

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