ANNEX A
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CASE NO. 3 OF 1973 SESSIONS
Reg. v. CHAN Hon-tong (om in 1924)
Report of the Trial Judge to His Excellency the Governor pursuant to Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instructions.
On the 26th February, 1973, one, CHAN Hon-tong,
after a trial lasting eleven days, was convicted of the
murder of WONG Yuk-lin, and sentenced to death. His
appeal to the Full Court was heard by that Court from 24th to 26th April, 1973, and was dismissed on the 26th
April, 1973.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. B. Caird, Crown Counsel and the accused was represented by Mr. A. Sedgwick on an assignment of legal aid. The instructing solicitors for the defence were Messrs. W.K. Lore & Company. The deceased was an 18 year old girl employed at the time by a Mr. and Mrs. McLean as a part-time amah at the Government quarters where they lived in Chung Hom Kok Road, off the Repulse Bay Road. Her hours of work were approximately from 1 to 6 p.m. The prisoner is a married man, aged 48, and at the material time was employed as a part-time caretaker at a block of flats in Chung Hom Kok Road, Repulse Bay, a few hundred yards away from the Government block of flats where the killing took place.
On the morning of the 17th March, 1972, Mrs. McLean left her flat and went to work. Her husband was, at that time, away on leave in New Zealand and Mrs. McLean was living alone in the flat. During the day she ordered meat and groceries to be delivered to the flat. She returned to the flat about 6 p.m. and was somewhat surprised to see the meat and groceries lying outside the front door entrance to the flat. She pressed the front door bell but there was no response. She let herself into the flat. There were obvious signs in the flat that the amah had in fact been there that afternoon. Mrs. McLean's surprise at not finding the amah in the flat turned to apprehension when she saw a "flip-flop" slipper lying in the corridor outside the 'hot room', the door of which was closed. She left the flat and
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