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helped Yeung to lie down on a rubber mat on the floor and then left
the building.
Yeung, who described himself as unable to stand or even sit up, remained in that flat during that day; he was given food and water and a bone setter was brought to him to attend to his injuries. In the afternoon of the following day police arrived at the flat and Yeung was sent by ambulance to Queen Mary Hospital
where he remained for four days.
The medical evidence upon his condition included tenderness on deep palpation over both sides of the lower chest wall, bruising over the whole of the anterior chest wall and on both shoulder and both wrist regions; multiple superficial abrasions at the back, on the abdomen and on both shins, a fracture of the right anterior ninth rib and a crack fracture of the axillary portion of the left
ninth rib.
An autopsy was performed upon Shanghai Chai and revealed bruising and abrasions over the head, the front and back of the trunk and both upper limbs; some of the bruises were parallel with
weals in between and were consistent with having been produced by an
instrument such as a rod; there were multiple abrasions not of the sliding type; bruisings on the right forehead and left eyebrow; abrasions on the right eyebrow, the outer end of the right eye and
the left side of the chin; both lips were swollen and bruised on
the inside and the front of both the upper and lower gums were
bruised as were the left arm, the back, the right forearm and the
elbow. There were numerous other bruisings and abrasions. Internally
there was generalised bruising of the tissues on the front of the
chest with a blood clot of about two inches in diameter over the front
of the lower part of the breast bone; 17 ribs were fractured, one
of them in two places, and the bruising around all these fractures
indicated that the fractures were sustained while Shanghai Chai was
still alive; there was blood and blood clots in both the right and
the left chest cavity, and lacerations on the two surfaces of the
middle and lower lobe of the right lung and of the lower lobe of
the left lung; there was bruising on the left back of the brain;
the gullet, windpipe and smaller air passages contained vomitus and
the immediate cause of death was asphyxia due to inhalation of vomitus but the doctor who conducted the autopsy was of the opinion that had