Sinclair will not talk to Royal Commission
The ' convicted drugs dealer;/■ Alexander Sinclair, says he has ho intention of talking.' to the Australian Royal;. Commission on Drug Trafficking./ - Sinclair -has said this through’ the solicitors who represented him during the six-month trial last year that ended in his being sentenced to life imprisonment... A .British reporteiFrecerißy that.Sgrclair;. aged .38, was ready <tb speak. ;
to Royal Commission members led by Mr Justice Stewart during their visit to Britain 71 last month. Sinclair, a New Zealander, is in the top-security Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, oft England's south coast, serving his life sentence for the murder of a former cohort. Christopher Martin Johnstone, known as "Mr Asia." A member of the legal firm representing him said
that Sinclair was aware that the British newspaper report had been reproduced in newspapers in Australia and New Zealand. He had asked that a letter be sent to one of them saying in part: "Mr Sinclair categorically denies that he has any intention of seeing or assisting the Australian Royal Commission in any way or that he has ever harboured . any /Such? intention." /
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Press, 15 February 1982, Page 4
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