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BACKGROUND

1. The MacLennan Inquiry was a Commission of Inquiry set up

by the Governor to investigate the circumstances surrounding

the death of Police Inspector MacLennan. The Inquiry took

nearly a year to complete. Since most of those involved

in it retained Counsel at public expense, the cost to the

Hong Kong taxpayer was, at approximately one and a half

million pounds, enormous.

Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1 March 1982