Survivors need support when preparing and submitting redress applications; they need help through (often protracted) assessment processes, and assistance when they receive payments. Good support is necessary to survivors and to the effectiveness of any redress programme. The chapter first explores how local community agencies support survivors. This investigation encompasses the roles of survivors and offenders in providing support. I then look at how to provide survivors with professional services. While survivors should have real choices where they get support, this chapter stresses the advantages of providing holistic support through local community agencies.

This chapter deals with the aftermath of Ho Chi Minh's arrest and incarceration in Victoria Prison (along with that of a female comrade Ly Sam/Co Thuan). It draws upon a trove of documentation, both personal and political, that was seized from Ho Chi Minh's Kowloon City premises. These documents were lost to British record keepers but survive in French and Russian archives and are here offered for the first time in print. The chapter examines Ho Chi Minh's household budget notebooks to reveal the names of tenants and their activities. It also introduces the crucial support rendered by local lawyer Francis Loseby in mounting the Sung Man Cho/ Ly Sam defense in Hong Kong's Supreme Court. Besides offering detail on Ho Chi Minh's prison experience, this chapter also introduces rare documentation in the form of letters written from prison to the French double agent, including his own medical and mental condition, among other key intelligence details reaching French ears.