PATO PORISY
Report to His Excellency the Governor in respect of Case No. 40 of the 1974 Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court.
His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.
Sir,
LUI Kam-shing (Aged 23 years).
I have the honour to report in pursuance to Clause XXXIV
of the Royal Instructions that on the 15th July, 1974 the above
named prisoner was convicted by a jury of the murder of TAM Kam-ming.
The prisoner was accordingly sentenced to death. His appeal against
conviction was dismissed by the Full Court on the 9th September, 1974.
This was an interesting case in that the vast majority of
the evidence adduced was circumstantial evidence. There was no eye-
witness to the attack on the deceased and no statement made by the
prisoner which directly connected him with the murder. The deceased was discovered by a patrolling police staff sergeant lying in a pool
of blood outside a restaurant known as the Jame Bond Restaurant in
Nathan Road at about 05.40 hours on the morning of the 19th December,
1973. The deceased was immediately conveyed to hospital by ambulance
but he died soon after arrival from a stab wound that had penetrated
his heart and right lung. More police arrived on the scene and they
entered the James Bond Restaurant where they found a certain amount
of disorder. They found blood on the floor and also some table
cloths and a bed sheet also on the floor. The police went through
the restaurant and found the rear door leading to a service lane
open. They found blood stains on that door and on the wall nearby.
This service lane ran parallel to Nathan Road at the back of the
restaurant and one end of it emerged into Bute Street. Just outside
the rear door of the restaurant in this service lane the police found
a trail of blood which was still wet and they followed this trail for
a distance of about 280 yards from outside the back door of the
restaurant along the service lane, along Bute Street to the bottom
of a staircase at No.578 Reclamation Street. During the search of this area they discovered the prisoner lying in the back of a parked lorry. When asked what he was doing there the prisoner told
the police that he had been hit and had run there to hide and that
he had been robbed and injured near the James Bond Restaurant. The
prisoner was assisted from the back of the lorry and was then searched