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they mot from time to time. Ho said that on the 27th August, 1973
he met the accused and went for a walk with him In Mongkok, he
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said, they not "a group of teddy boys" among whom was the person,
"Tai Che Man" to whom the deceased owed the $300. He is not the
accused.
Several of the group took the deceased aside and spoke
to him. The deceased told his friend that "Tai Che Man" and his
gang had pressed for repayment but were demanding $3,000, being
the principal plus accumulated interest. Ho also told him that
further negotiations were to be held at the James Bond Restaurant
on the evening of the 30th August. The friend offered his services
should they be required for that evening, and he was asked to come
if free. He turned up at the restaurant late in the ovening of
the 30th and as the deceased was not the ro he telephoned him.
the telephone the deceased said that "Tai Cho Man" had joined the
To On Lok Triad Society and had invoked its assistance to persuado
He said he would try to have the $3,000 reduced
him to pay up.
and hung up.
nogotiato.
He did not turn up at the James Bond Restaurant to
About 6.45 a.m. on the 31st August ho received the
thrashing from which he died.
On
I have no doubt of the correctness of the verdict of the
jury; the Full Court upheld it. But I fool that this was a case
where the intention of the group was to give a thrashing to the
deceased and to inflict "grievous bodily ham" which would be a
lesson to others who might be tempted to default on the "brothers
of the society; to publicise the society's strength; and to
demonstrate how the society supported its members. In all
probability the accused and the group - the "persons unknown"
were with him did not intend death but did intend grievous bodily
who