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Hunghom was understandable. Obviously he could not be
arrested in the Harbour Hotel, or even in the Wanchai
area because such an arrest would immediately become
suspect. The place of arrest need not of course have
been in Hunghom. It could just as well be in Laichikok,
Kwun Tong or Mongkok. The fictitious arrest was necessary
particularly for the purposes of those Police officers
performing the arrest because it would be of immense
help to them when giving their evidence of the arrest
at LEUNG's trial.
In accordance with proper procedure, the Police officers
took LUNG Wing-sang to Hunghom Police Station where his arrest was duly recorded. There Sergeant YIP Yin
cautioned LEUNG, as a result of which LEUNG wrote out
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a statement in which he said, among other things, "I
seized a knife and chopped a person. I did it for
self-defence". Then the Police officers took LEUNG
and YICK Chung (who had by then been arrested) to
Wanchai Police Station and detained them.
Later that morning, i.e., 31st July, 1973, LAW Ming-tak and those of his people who were on bail were given back their bail money. YICK Chung was released a day
or two later. No identification parade was held for
any of them, because, according to Detective Divisional
Insepctor MOK Sau-tim, they had all denied having been involved in the incident at the Cactus Apartment House
and they all had alibis which upon checking turned out
to be true. It took one or two days only to check all alibis. On this particular aspect of Police actions, a question arises as to whether the Police, in view of their suspicion of those people, had pursued their investigation into the incident at the Cotus Apartment
House as vigorously and thoroughly as they should. But in fairness to the Police, it should be pointed
out that a party of Police including LAU Cheong-wah
and YIP Yin travelled to Macau in search for two
suspects mentioned by CHAN Loi-fat, but their effort
was to no avail.