Lorrain Osman (No. 2)

EDM number 905 in 1992-93, proposed by Robert Parry on 19/11/1992.

That this House notes with absolute consternation the publication of a new schedule of evidence taking in the tragic case of Lorrain Osman, which the Hong Kong authorities admit under pressure will mean that there will be no trial for Mr Osman before late 1994 or early 1995 and possibly much later; notes with outrage that the Hong Kong authorities propose to continue to hold Mr Osman on remand, in gaol, either here or in Hong Kong, having already held him on remand for seven years in Pentonville and Brixton prisons; further notes with alarm that Mr Osman is held on the basis of a case made by the Hong Kong Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, Warwick Reid, who is now serving eight years in gaol for corruption; further notes that Mr Osman's long search for justice through the medium of habeas corpus has been deliberately frustrated by the Hong Kong prosecutors having withheld crucial evidence that wholly contradicts the evidence on which Mr Osman was committed to prison in the United Kingdom in the first place; and demands the immediate release of Mr Osman, now 61 years old and in deteriorating health, as well as a judicial inquiry into the whole affair.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs.