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the precise time.
Blood was found on Clements shoe which matched the blood of the deceased. Approximately one in forty of the population of Hong Kong would have this type of blood. Blood matching that taken from Clements was found in the murder room, again approximately one in 40 of the population would possess this combination of blood groupings.
(6) Head hair was found on the deceased's sweater (27 hairs)
and a further 9 hairs were found round the rim of the wash basin in the bathroom adjoining the murder room. These head hairs were examined by a forensic scientist and compared with head hairs taken from Clements and found to have six characteristic in common. The evidence was that the hair found at the scene had been pulled out by the roots and was totally consistent with having come from Clements' head.
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Clements had a sprained right wrist and the deceased met her death from a broken left jaw.
Underneath the body a match box from the AnAn Bar in Kowloon was found. It was established that Clements had been drinking at the AnAn Bar up to at least 10.15 p.m. on the 27th.
Clements gave evidence in his defence as follows :-
He explained the palm prints in the murder room i.e. a bedroom in a brothel, as being left there on the night of the 24th March when, during that evening, he had been picked up by a girl in a bar, taken to an apartment house and there to a room with mirrors around the walls where he had sexual intercourse. He accepted that the palm prints must have been his but maintained that by co-incidence they must have been deposited there on the night of the 24th i.e. the room to which he was taken was the same room as where the deceased Jenny Kwok met her death. An unsatisfactory aspect of this story was an assertion that he paid $80 only, to a woman, to buy the girl out, and that he paid nothing to the girl herself. He was unable to give a specific description of the bar nor was he able to give any clear description of the girl. He alleged that he had been drinking with companions in the bar before being taken away.
None of these companions were called to
give evidence.
As to the night of the 27th/28th March he alleged that he had been drinking in bars on Hong Kong Island and that he had never travelled to Kowloon side. That he had been alone without any companions from the Acadia. That he took a taxi back to the place where the ship
was moored at about mid-night. That in the dock area he was attacked and mugged. That he fell to the ground, had money stolen, and sustained a bleeding nose from
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