MacLennan
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Henry be expedited and prosecutions commenced when sufficient
evidence was available. It was thought that this prosecution, in particular, would end conjecture on the unfounded allegations
by Duffy as to protection. In the course of two weeks in the beginning of August five arrests were made by the SIU which, during that period, was expanded somewhat. Prosecutions, including that
of a Crown Counsel, followed in accordance with the indication by the Acting DPP, M. Macdougall (now Macdougall J) that when there was evidence to support prosecutions, such prosecutions would be brought. Subsequently, following a request by the CP for guidance on the question of manpower to be directed to investigations into homosexuality, and after consultation with HE and CS, the AG forwarded to CP on the 31st August the attached letter (Appendix 1)
based on a draft by HE. This letter has become known at the
Inquiry as the SIU "charter". It included reference, inserted by the AG to members of the Judiciary, members of the AG's Chambers,
lawyers in active practice in the Courts and to the Police for the
the reasons set out therein. Evidence so far presented to the
Commission indicates that the existence of this charter was not
generally known to other than the most senior officer or officers of the SIU, which was, by September 1979, headed by Supt. Brooks with the DCP, Mr. P.T. Moor in ultimate command.
October 1979
The name of MacLennan and another civil servant, one Logan, emerged in the course of SIU enquiries. Logan was subsequently prosecuted and pleaded guilty. It is not yet beyond doubt how or why MacLennan was investigated by the SIU with apparent vigour but, significantly, there have been allegations, primarily by one Fulton (a homosexual police officer and SIU informer) that he had been asked by the SIU to set up MacLennan. It has further been
suggested that the SIU was interested in MacLennan as a result of
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