Policewoman flees
NZPA-Reuter Bogota (Colombia)
A former woman member of Colombia’6 secret police, Amira Pardo de la Hoz, is being given protection by the British Embassy in Bogota, a British diplomat has said.
The British Consul (Mr lan Roy Kenyon) said that Miss de la Hoz entered the embassy on Friday. He denied thatshe was granted asylum.
“No-one has taken asylum in the embassy but we are granting protection to the ex-detective and trying to help her enter Britain.” ’ A military source said that when Miss”de la Hoz went
to the embassy she said some of her former colleagues were trying to kill her because of her knowledge of their involvement in the murder of an Australian woman and a Colombian criminal in November, 1976. The military source said Miss de la Hoz told British diplomats that members of the secret police had machine - gunned her house in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast on Wednesday. In London, a British Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that the embassy had given’ her protection and said application was being made for permission for her to be brought to Britain.
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