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Condemned Prisoners: MAN Kam-wah @ MAN Kam
HO Kwai-wah HC Kwai
MAN Kam-hoi C MAN Hoi
MAN Kam-tong
CHOI Chi-kin © CHOI Man-kin PSE Tai-tung
CHAN Hung C CHAN Pak-hung
Report by Home Affairs Department
Enquiries have been made by the staff of City District Offices in Eastern, Kowloon City and Yau Ma Tei where the nearest relatives of the prisoners and the victim live.
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The wife of the victim, Madam LEUNG Choi-wah and her three sons are under the care of the Police Force Welfare Office whose officers pay frequent visits to the family. According to Madam Leung, each month the family receives about 700 from the Government Widow and Orphan Pension Fund and a special relief fund of $250 from the General Chamber of Commerce. One of her three sons has been awarded a free place in the St. Joseph School at Ngau Tau Kok. School fees of the other two sons are met from the Police Force Education Fund. The monthly rent for the unit occupied by the family in the Ho Man Tin Estate is $140. Madam Leung said that with the resources available she could barely make the ends meet. However, when tactfully asked about her feelings towards the case, she declined to speak further.
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The family of the Man brothers was also visited by the staff of the Kowloon City District Office. According to Madam CLUNG Kau-mui, mother of the Man brothers, the families of her three sons involved in the case are now under the care of the Social Welfare Department whose staff visit them regularly. Madam Cheung has two other sons who are the elder brothers of the condemned prisoners and are both working. She indicated, that she would now leave the fate of her convicted sons to the decision of the Governor. Naturally, she appeared very depressed and was most unwilling to speak in detail about the case.
The families of the condemned prisoners CHUI Chi-kin and TSE Tai- tung were also visited. They do not seem to have any hardship at the moment, nor do they wish to comment on the case.
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The staff of the Yau Ma Tei City District Office got in touch with Mr. CHAN Cheong, father of the condemned prisoner CHAN Hung. Mr. CHAN Cheong, aged 54, is a carpenter working on board ships. His wife Madam MAN Yin, a construction labourer aged 46, lives in the Man Yiu Building near the Yau Ma Tei Ferry Pier with two daughters and her two other sons. The eldest daughter was married and is living with her husband in Hung Hom. CHAN Cheong has an income of about $1,000 a month and his wife has a similar income. He owns the flat in which the family is living. The livelihood of the family appears to be little affected by his son's being convicted of murder. Mr. CHAN Cheong expressed that his convicted son used to treat him quite well. He said that he scarcely knew the activities of his son before and immediately after the crime was committed and neither did he know any of his son's accomplices. He revealed that his last residence was in the Valley Road Estate and he guessed that his son might have got acquainted with the other convicts there and then.
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