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Report to His Excellency the Governor in respect of Criminal Case No.35 of 1974, Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court
His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.
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Your Excellency,
Re: Li Tung-yau (19) garment worker
Tsui Kwok-kin (20)➡ police constable
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I have the honour to report, pursuant to Clause XXXIV
of the Royal Instructions, that on the 24th July 1974 the above
prisoners were convicted by the jury of the murder of one Kwok
Chun-kwan. The jury also returned a unanimous verdict of guilty
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of affray against each of the two prisoners. I have sentenced
the prisoners to death for the offence of murder but postponed
sentences for the offence of affray.
Four other youths, were tried together with the above
prisoners for murder. The jury found one not guilty and could
not agree on a verdict in respect of the other three.
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•UDY O
The incident arose out of a meeting between members
of two Triad Societies at a teashop in Yuen Long on the evening
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of the 13th November 1973. The deceased was the leading figure
of his party of about ten men. They were unarmed. Tsui Kwok-
kin and another person with the nickname of Bun Kai or Nun Kai
were the leading figures of the other party which comprised also
about ten men. Li Tung-yau was a member of Tsui Kwok-kin's party.
Some members of Tsui Kwok-kin's party carried weapons such as
sharpened water pipes, long knives, and iron bars. The meeting
was held for the purpose of settling an old dispute between Tsui
Kwok-kin and the deceased, but it ended in an affray, during LOTING
which the deceased was stabbed in the back three times with a
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