ANNEX TO XCR(74) / 63
IN THE MATTER OF Woo Ming Sang
deceased
and
IN THE MATTER OF a conviction for
murder
TO:
HIS EXCELLENCY SIR CRAWFORD MURRAY MACLEHOSE, KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE, MEMBER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, GOVERNOR AND COM- MANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME.
IN COUNCIL
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF condemned Prisoner No.15281, Lai For Pui now a prisoner at Stanley, Hong
Kong.
HUMBLY SHEWETH as follows:-
1.
That Your Petitioner was charged before the Supreme
The
Court with the murder of Woo Ming Sang (hereinafter referred
to as the said deceased) on the 31st day of August 1973.
jury convicted him of the same on the 16th day of April 1974.
2.
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That Your petitioner stupidly and untruly set up a
defence which (as he has been advised) is in law called an
alibi, namely that he was not present when the said deceased
was killed. For this reason counsel representing Your
Petitioner was very much hampered in his cross examination
of witnesses, who were basically not telling the whole story
by any means.
3.
That Your Petitioner himself filed Notice of Appeal
in prison. The grounds for the application for leave to
appeal being merely "that I was falsely accused and wrongly
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