ANNEX
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The 22nd day of November, 1973.
TO XC74)
TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR CRAWFORD MURRAY MACLEHOSE, KNIGHT
COMMANDER OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL
AND ST. GEORGE, MELBER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT OKDER OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF
THE COLONY OF HONG MŨNG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES:
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF
CHAN HON TONG
a condemned prisoner in Stanley Prison
humbly sheweth:
1.
I was on the 26th day of February, 1973, convicted
in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, upon the verdict
of a jury, of the offence of murdering WONG YUA LIN,
a girl of 18 years of age, and was for that offence
sentenced to suffer death in the manner authorised
by law.
2.
My appeal to the Full Court of the Supreme Court
of Hong kong against the said conviction has been
dismissed and I have been refused leave to appeal
further to Her Majesty-in-Council.
3.
4.
I respectfully petition Your Excellency that Your
Excellency may be pleased to exercise the Royal
Prerogative of Mercy in my favour and commute the
said sentence of death to one of imprisonment.
The grounds upon which I petition Your Excellency
are as follows:
(a) The case for the prosecution against me was wholly
circumstantial in character and is set out in
detail in the judgment of the Full Court dismissing
my appeal.