SOCIAL ENQUIRY
CHENG Wing-fei, Male
CONDEMNED PRISONER
ANNEX FTÒ XCR(74) ||5
Religion: Nil
Native Place: Toi Shan, Kwangtung, China.
Age: 20 (born on 30th June, 1953, with Hong Kong Birth
Certificate)
A. GENERAL INFORMATION
Prisoner, CHENG Wing-fei, was born in Hong Kong and brought up in a working class family. He is the second child but eldest son of five children in family.
As his parents were both engaged in long hours of work, especially the father's residing in his working place, as a watchman, Prisoner was deprived of adequate parental care during his childhood. His mother had stayed home for several years when she suffered from anemia, but her weak health, her domestic handicraft work, as well as her ignorance and over-protective attitude, prevented her from offering the necessary attention to her children.
Chiefly because of family financial difficulty, Prisoner ceased schooling about the age of fourteen. When he began employ- ment, he could uphold monthly contribution home. However, he gradually fell in with undesirable characters and got indulged in pleasure-seeking pursuits.
Prisoner's growing waywardness eventually brought him into trouble with law when he committed an offence of Possession of Arms without Licence (Case No. TW 3342/70), for which he was first sent to the Shek Pik Training Centre on 21.7.70 but later placed on 18-month probation on 22.9.70 on appeal against his sentence. His response to probation supervision was not satis- factory. Although he managed to stick to a job and report as directed in the beginning months, he became very unstable in the later period and repeatedly failed to keep reporting appointment.
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For a further offence of Robbery (K-6900/71), Prisoner was sentenced to the Shek Pik Training Centre on 28.7.71. He had been warned to behave in class and punished for involvement in a fight within the Centre. However, after he was transferred to the Cape Collinson Training Centre on 5.5.72, he was able to behave satisfactorily up to his discharge on 4.1.73.
After his discharge from the training centre, Prisoner admitted that he had only worked for a couple of days and chiefly stayed with his former associates until his present arrest.
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