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ANNEX A TO XCR(74)79
REPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
under section 70(2) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance
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The Queen v. CHAU Cheuk-yin (1st accused)
LAI Fai (2nd accused)
WAN Mui-mui (4th accused)
LIU Sim-shun (5th accused)
(Case No. 79 of 1972 Criminal Sessions)
In accordance with Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instructions
I report upon the case of the above four persons, convicted by jury
of the murder on 25th May 1972 of a man called CHAN Kwok-cheong at
Wanchai and sentenced by me to death on 3rd May of this year. They were respectively the first, second, fourth and fifth accused
in the case. The third accused in this case, a young man called
HO Man-wai was similarly convicted of murder but as he had been
under the age of 18 years at the date of the commission of the
offence I ordered that he be detained in a place of security until
Her Majesty's pleasure be known, and I have already reported separately upon his case to Your Excellency. All five accused were
at the same time convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm upon a young man called YEUNG Lin-shing. I passed no sentence in respect of this conviction.
These crimes involved a call-girl organization in which
the accused were involved in various ways. CHAU Cheuk-yin, who
says he is aged 20, and LAI Fai, who says he is aged 29, denied
that they were employed in the organization but both of them were
at the time of the murder living with girls working for the organization
in premises controlled by it and were often in the headquarters of
the organization. CHAU Cheuk-yin's finger prints were found on the
guard rail of the road below which the body was found.
JAN Mui-mui is the only woman among the accused and is the oldest of them, being aged 33. I formed a very unfavourable opinion of her. She undoubtedly played (with her husband who was conspicuously absent from the case) a leading role if not the
leading role in the call-girl organization; the prosecution witnesses all say that she "seemed to be in charge" at the premises of the organization and the evidence of her co-accused is to much the same
effect; she gave money to other members of the organization when they decided to scatter afte disposing of the body of the deceased.