77. Mr. H. D. Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in what circumstances Mr. Fooi Hong, previously acquitted of murder, has been banished from Malaya.
§ Mr. Rees-WilliamsMr. Fooi Hong was deported under the Banishment Enactment because the Governor had satisfied himself by careful inquiry that he was an active member of a gang which had been concerned in murders, robberies and extortion. Before his acquittal by the Supreme Court on a charge of murder, and after the preliminary hearing by a magistrate, the principal witness for the prosecution at that hearing was murdered.