TNAG-2318-FCO40-3362-Petitions-from-members-of-the-public-regarding-Hong-Kong-1991 — Page 76

Rt Hon Sir Robert Fellowes KCB KCVO

Buckingham Palace

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I enclose a petition to Her Majesty The Queen forwarded to the Foreign and Commonwealth office by the Hong Kong Government in January this year.

The petition is made by a Chinese citizen,

Mrs Li Yue-Xiai, on behalf of her son, Mok Kwong-Yuen.

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Mok was convicted of the murder of a woman during an armed robbery at her home in February 1978. Mok was found quilty on 28 September 1979. After an appeal and a

subsequent re-trial, Mok was again convicted of murder on

3 April 1980. As Mok was seventeen years old at the time

of the offence, he was sentenced to be detained pending

Her Majesty's pleasure. He has spent nearly eleven years in prison so far. Mok has petitioned the Governor himself for clemency five times in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

and 1988. All of these petitions were denied. Mok's

case was last reviewed by the Board of Review, Long Term

Prison Sentences, on 29 June 1990 when the Board found

that there were no circumstances warranting a

recommendation of an early release.

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