ANNEX C TO XCR(74)163
NOTE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
CHARGE AND CONVICTION.
LAI For-pui (who is 25 years of age) was convicted
on 16th April 1974 of the murder on 31st August 1973 of WOO
An appeal to the Full Court was dismissed on
Ming-sang.
10th June.
FACTS.
2.
At about 7 a.m.
on 31st August 1973, five people,
including the deceased and a girl of 17 with whom he was living,
went to a billiard saloon. Not long afterwards, someone
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(possibly LAI) came into the saloon, pointed at the deceased
and said that he (the deceased) owed money which he had refused
to pay.
The deceased was invited.to go outside the saloon,
but refused. Then, a number of people rushed in and attacked
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the deceased, who was chased round the premises after an initial
assault. Two groups of people were involved - - one concerned in
the attack, the other in keeping watch or preventing the deceased's
companions from intervening. Initially, billiard cues were
used in the attack, but LAI, whose billiard cue was broken in
the initial attack, went away and returned
went away and returned with a "hard object"
with which he attacked the deceased about the head.
3.
LAI was identified by three of the deceased's companions
at an identification parade held on 6th November 1973. The
witnesses were undoubtedly assisted in their identification of
LAI by the fact that each had seen him a day or two before the
killing.
4.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
The deceased sustained four wounds on the head, though
the skull was not fractured, and there was bruising of part of
the brain. The head injuries caused his death in that bleeding