[LCC] PA: Leo Abse

[Terrence Lockyer]

According to a brief Press Association report being 
carried by Yahoo, Leo Abse, the former Labour MP from 
Wales who helped pilot through the British House of 
Commons the legislation that decriminalized male 
homosexual intercourse in England and Wales in 1967, 
and who was also involved with the 1969 Divorce Law 
Reform Act, died on Tuesday night (19/08/2008) at 
Charing Cross Hospital in London, aged 91.


Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa