TNAG-2390-FCO40-3472-Extradition-from-the-UK-to-Hong-Kong-case-of-Lorrain-Esme-Os-1991 — Page 204

Kevin Cahill

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Sir John Coles KCMG,

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

London SW1.

56 Tavistock Place London WC1 9RG.

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Signed

Kevin Caurr

3rd Sept 1991.

Dear Sis

is John,

Irregular activities of the law officers in Hong

Kong.

I have before me a report of the Layton trial, recently

completed in Hong Kong. From the transcript it appears that the

senior law officers in Hong Kong, the Attorney General and the

DPP, were in the habit of offering large sums of money to 'recover'

fugatives from other countries around the region.

I do not need to point out to you that, once off the

territory of Hong Kong, and on the territory of another state,

such activities constitute the crime of bribery and kidnapping.

Is it the policy of HMG to encourage senior officials to procure

the commission of serious crime in the territory of friendly

states? If it is, would you let me know what statute authorises

this activity ?.

As you know, the deputy DPP in HK at the time covered by

the matter in the Layton trial is now a convicted crook. However, it

was the other two law officers who, in apparent defiance of the

Governors misgivings, ordered the prosecution of Lorrain Osman

by the jailed Reid. That they were both engaged in suspect, even

criminal activities themselves, only adds to the well chronicled

history of irregularity in the Osman case. I await your reply

with interest.

cc. FA Ctee.PA.

sincerey Nevin Cahusi

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