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In January 1980 a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came mere hours before he was to be arrested for committing homosexual acts still, at that point, illegal in Hong Kong. But this was more than the desperate act of a young man, ashamed and afraid; both his death and the subsequent investigation were a smokescreen for a scandal that went to the heart of the establishment.
MacLennan came to Hong Kong from Scotland during a time of social unrest and corruption scandals, a time when the triads still took their cut, and when homosexuality and paedophilia were considered interchangeable and both offered easy targets for blackmail. The governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose was to be a time of reform and progress, but with that remit came the determination of many to suppress scandals and silence those who stirred up trouble. Both the life and death of John MacLennan seemed to many of those in power to threaten the stability of one of Britain's last colonies.
Contents
1. Scotland
2. Hong Kong
3. Corruption
4. Amnesty
5. Homosexuality
6. John Richard Duffy
7. Yuen Long
8. Appeal
9. The SIU
10. Pursuit
11. The Honourable John Griffiths
12. Set-Up
13. Stumbling Blocks
14. Suicide
15. Investigation
16. Outcry
17. Inquest
18. Campaign
19. Commission of Inquiry
20. The Carratu Investigation
21. Opening Moves
22. The SIU Case Collapses
23. Discrediting the Police
24. Hostile Witnesses
25. Intervention
26. Endgame
27. The Commission Report
28. Justice T.L. Yang
29. Aftermath
