New book announcement: “A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal” by Nigel Collett
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…