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333. When in the crowd he heard, he said, people shouting 'Why did they fire tear-gas?'. 'Why did they beat a young kid?' When asked about his own feelings or reasons for joining in, he gave an answer that was difficult to follow but which seemed to imply that he kept away from LO Kei on the second night because he thought LO Kei was breaking the law but hoped his own activities did not.
334. He was arrested or asked to go to the Police Station next day, having apparently been recognized during the incident outside the President Hotel. He was charged with, and convicted of, rioting. At the hearing on 13th April, accord- ing to the court record, he admitted that at about 10.30 p.m. he had been with LO Kei in Nathan Road leading a crowd from Tsim Sha Tsui towards Yau Ma Tei and that, when LO Kei shouted to the crowd asking if they were afraid of the police, tear-gas, grenades or bullets, RAGGENSACK led the crowd in shouting they were not. Having heard him, we have no reason to doubt the validity of his convic- tion or the accuracy of the admission in that record, which would appear to give a sharper edge to the picture of his activity in Kowloon that evening.
335. In the course of his evidence he seemed, at one time, very ready to respond to the suggestion that there might have been some organization behind the demonstrations and riots. He spoke about a skinny man with spectacles whom he had seen with SO at the ferry on the night of the 4/5th and who, he said, came up to him again when the demonstrators on the evening of the 5/6th were back at the Ferry Terminal; this man then told him something about 'if I continue in a loyal way together with the crowds, I would not be forgotten.' His evidence on this had, however, an evasive, elusive and insubstantial quality that did not carry conviction.
336. He was emphatic that he had not, before the evening of the 4/5th, known LO Kei, SO or Miss LUI or any of the others whose names he had mentioned.
LO Kei
337. With a witness so indifferent to truth as LO Kei, it is difficult to know what degree of credence can be given to any part of his testimony, but there seemed to be little reason for him to lie about his earlier years which he described as follows. He was born in May 1947 in Hong Kong. He attended primary school in Canton between 1953-59 and then returned to Hong Kong where he lived with his mother until she died, having committed suicide in 1963. After her death he