GNX 384/428/LAM/WT
Mr Donald
CONFIDENTIAL
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Mr Bu
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Milano.v.
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17/12
#7/12
PS/Lord Belstead
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Af29/12
REQUEST BY THE LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT FOR THE EXTRADITION FROM HONG KONG OF LAM WAI TING.
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1. Hong Kong telegram no. 1459 of 13 December reported that
Lord Belstead may wish to have a report on the above case on
his return to the office on 17 December.
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The Liberian Government made a formal request, under cover
of a Note dated 23 September, from the Liberian Embassy, for
the extradition from Hong Kong to Liberia of Lam Wai Ting,
a Hong Kong seaman who is alleged to have murdered a fellow
Hong Kong seaman, Lam Yau-Cheuk, on board a Liberian registered ship in international waters on 30/31 July last. The request was made in accordance with the provisions of the UK/Liberia
Extradition Treaty of 1892, which has been extended to
Hong Kong and other Dependent Territories.
3. The surrender of a fugitive from the UK or a Dependent Territory is at the discretion of the Home Secretary or the appropriate Governor. Before ordering the surrender of the fugitive the Home Secretary, or Governor, is responsible for satisfying himself that the standards of justice in the requesting State are not oppressive and that, if surrendered, the fugitive
can expect a fair trial.
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Since the abolition of the death penalty in Great Britain, it has been our practice also to seek from a requesting State which retains the death penalty an assurance or undertaking that, should the offender be returned and convicted, the death sentence, if imposed, would not be carried out; or if such an assurance
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