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Yeung was sitting, whereupon Yeung was told to sit on another sofa; after which a group of more than ten persons including the five appellants, began to hit and kick Shanghai Chai. According to Yeung's evidence the 4th appellant appeared to be in charge during the beating up and it was she who, after 20 to 25 minutes, told somebody to give Shanghai Chai a glass of water, following which the same group again struck him and kicked him, one member of the attacking party hitting him on the back eight or ten times with a wooden pole. It was Yeung's evidence that Shanghai Chai had some difficulty in breathing and when he was struck and kicked he fell on a sofa from which he was lifted up and struck again; at some stage during the beating the 4th appellant ordered the group to remove Shanghai Chai's Hawaiian shirt. After the second beating of Shanghai Chai which lasted for 15 to 20 minutes his face and limbs were motionless and, according to Yeung, he said in a very faint
voice "You had better beat me up to death". At about this stage the 4th appellant told certain of the attackers to go out for a
snack and there were then left in the flat the 1st, 2nd and 5th appellants together with Yeung and Shanghai Chai, each of whom was lying on a sofa. According to Young, at that time Shanghai Chai
was motionless and his complexion had changed colour; as he lay on
the sofa facing the wall Yeung heard a telephone ring and then heard somebody say "It seems that this guy has been nailed", which he
understood to mean that Shanghai Chai was dead. While still on the
sofa with his face to the wall Yeung heard a number of other people
come into the room and sounds as of heavy objects being moved. When
he turned away from the wall Shanghai Chai was no longer on the
other sofa.
B
Shanghai Chai's body was subsequently found, wrapped in
two bedsheets, down a hillside near Deep Water Bay.
At the time that Yeung noticed that Shanghai Chai was no
longer on his sofa, the 1st, 2nd and 5th appellants, who had been
left in the premises with Yeung and Shanghai Chai, were no longer
in the flat but the 2nd appellant must have eturned because at about
day-break Yeung was escorted from the flat, into the street and to another
flat by the 2nd appellant and another man whom he could not see clearly. The door to this flat was opened from within by the 1st appellant
and the 5th appellant was also already inside that flat. The four