H
Social Enquiry Report
on Condemned Prisoner
Name
Sex
: Male
Are
: 35
Native
海志定)
( as claimed by himself)
Canton, China.
Religion: Nil
(A) General Information
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The prisoner was born and raised up in China. He received limited education and had to work in the countryside at a young age. While he was 21 years of age, the prisoner left his home in China for Macau in 1966. Being alone and without any close relatives there, the prisoner still managed to earn himself a livelihood as a shopkeeper. He lived in Macau for about four years. Then he met his present wife who was a resident of Hong Kong, at that time. taking vacation in the Portugese Colony after the separation with her previous cohabitee. The two became very much attracted to each other and started their cohabitation, in liacau for a while. The prisoner's wife already had two children in Hong Kong temporarily under the care of her own mother. Having to look after these children, the prisoner's wife returned to Hong Kong first; and shortly after, the prisoner also made his way here. They joined each other and fed together again. After the birth of their first child, they became properly registered for their union as husband- and wife.
The prisoner worked as a transportation labourer or as a construction worker in those previous years; leading a hard-laboured, difficult kind of life. Being fully occupied at home to look after the children, his wife could not give him any assistance in shouldering the financial burden. Hard-pressed, but striving to earn a better livelihood for his family, the prisoner became a police informer since 1975.
By nature, the prisoner had been a talkative, friendly kind of person who could really handle human relationship. During his earlier years of work in construction sites or at the waterfront and godowns, he came to know quite some characters of the underworld circle. Though allegedly not deeply connected with these people, the prisoner admitted that he had been making association with them # frequently at his leisure times. Hence, he was invited to become a police informer; and once got started, he could no longer retreat himself; particularly when the prisoner was somewhat a speciality in providing the police information of activities of or crimes committed by 'Chinese immigrants'. Of course, on the other hand, the big money reward was another element he just could not resist. In the past several years, the prisoner was not engaged in any regular form of employment apart from some casual, day-to-day basis odd jobs. He was quite affluent in expenditures and was spending money freely; which was another reason why he could not retreat since no other job could allow him such freedom of time and would earn him such handsorynoney rewards.
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