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Re
Liu Ping-hon's Death
P.3
He had further applied to be a member of the Auxilliary
Police Force, and pursuant to this application was due
to attend a Medical Board on August 2, 1977.
Liu Ping-hon was also an A.M.S. with the St.
John's Ambulance Brigade, the latter being an entirely
voluntary position.
KNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO DEATH
The deceased's mother, Madam Liu King-yee, gave evidence that
on the morning of Tuesday, July 26, Liu Ping-hon had woken
some time after 6.00 am. He was in a happy mood, and talked
with her as he did some exercises on the balcony. Part of
the conversation was as to the salary increment he could now
expect in the next month as the result of the official
confirmation of his honours degree, Madam Liu testifying that
he was very happy about his prospects. There was some
discussion about what Liu Ping-hon was going to eat for
breakfast, and he then offered to go downstairs to buy some
Madam Liu gave him $2 and he left the kindergarten.
bread.
He did not return.
When Madam Liu realised that her son had been gone
rather a long time she went downstairs herself and saw a
person lying on the other side of the road outside the Hon
Ming Building, the building directly across from the Tung Chi
Building in which they lived. A crowd had gathered. She did
not believe it could be her son and rushed back up to the
kindergarten to see if the clothing on the body (red and white
striped shirt and brown trousers), which she had recognised as
similar to her son's clothing, was still in her son's closet.
It was not, and she returned downstairs once again with the
realisation that the body on the road was her son.
A further witness, one Hung Yu Chung who described
himself as the deceased's best friend and who had known him
since 1964, testified that on the previous evening ie the
evening of July 25 he had visited Liu Ping-hon at his home