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In this judgment I shall refer to the persons who operated the call girl establishment at No.20 Yen Chau Street as 'Group A' and their rival as 'Group B'. The appellant was a member of or associated with Group B and the three victims were members of Group A.
On the
The story of the prosecution is this. night in question two members of Group A, a Mr. Tsoi and a Mr. Tong, returned to the ninth floor of No. 20 Yen Chau Street and took the lift to the ninth floor. When the door of the lift opened they were met by some seven members of Group B. These men were armed and tied up Mr. Tsoi and Mr. Tong. They made Mr. Tsoi press the bell to the call girl establishment at knife point. One of the inmates inside the call girl establishment looked through the peep hole, recognized Mr. Tsoi as a
Immediately member of Group A and opened the door.
several members of Group B rushed in and started to strike at the men they found inside. Mr. Tsoi,-his hands still being bound, was pushed into the room with them and was an eye-witness to what occurred.
At the time there were five members of Group
A in the flat, two of whom were women.
About six or seven
members of Group B, of whom the appellant is one, entered
the premises and all were armed.
The members of Group
A were taken by surprise. Two of the men were in the sitting-room watching television and one was asleep in
There is no evidence that any the adjoining bedroom.
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members of Group A were armed.
There was evidence that the appellant struck
WONG Fat-nip, giving him a wound from which he subsequently died. Another of the attacking group also wounded him. LAU Wah gave evidence of this and also of the fact that the appellant struck him. LAU Wah is the victim in the wounding charge to which the appellant pleaded guilty.
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There was also evidence that YUNG Chi-sheung was wounded by the same persons who had wounded WONG Fat