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scolding by his maternal uncle when he worked with him and was so annoying to his father that the latter had often scolded him, beat him up and finally expelled him from home. Though the mother did not approve of this rather punitive way of dealing with the Prisoner, she could do nothing as the father's temper was worse.
The Prisoner was said to be a quiet person, but behind his taciturnity, he was said to have a small mind and was quick to take offence at the slightest suggestion of humiliation. This was most obvious when he was not given the first of attention in the distribution of food.
This emphasis on attention and a retreat to the self, to closeness, the mother suspected, was a product of the early unhappy circumstances of his growth.
Miss CHCI Po-yee (Younger sister, 12, a student)
The Prisoner was quiet and cool in his relationship
with them.
Miss CHAN Yuk-sim. (Girl-friend, 19, a factory worker when she
cohabited with the Prisoner about seven months before his offence)
The Prisoner was a reticent person who did not like her to interfere with his activities, so that she had little knowledge of what he was doing outside. He seemed to be without work at the beginning of their cohabition, but told her that they were living on the savings of his former employ- ment, and about two months before his arrest, he said that he was engaged in construction work. He gave her $500 a month as housekeeping money and behaved like a working man, coming in and going out at about the same time every day. He liked listening to music and Chinese kung-fu story-reading, and his entertainment with friends seemed to be mahjong-playing, and visiting bowling-centre. His friends seemed to be among those who were also condemned in this case.
Madam CHEUNG Yuan-to ("Mother-in-law", 43, a garment factory
labourer living at Room 615, Kam Bik House, Choi Hung Estate, Kowloon)
The Prisoner occasionally returned with her daughter, CHAN Yuk-sim, to visit them, but said little about their lives so that she had little knowledge about him.
Mr. YEUNG Man-chiu (Maternal uncle, 36, who worked with the
Prisoner in 1965/1966 and 1967/1968, and who is now a self-employed metal worker at 6 Kin On Village, Tai Lam Chung, N.T.)
The maternal uncle seemed rather protective of the Prisoner whom he considered dear to him. He said that the Prisoner was a good child except for the small faults of oversleeping, laziness and retorting at times. He did not often
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