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C.
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HOME ENVIRONMENT
In the past 5 years, the prisoner used to live with his wife and daughters in a private tenement at Flat No. 1, 11/F, Luen Yau Mansion, Smithfi ld Road/Bachelor Street, Western District. He rented the flat from his ex-schoolmate at a rental of $500 per month. It was about 300 square feet in area and was subdivided into one sitting room and 2 bedrooms. For a short while before the present offence, the prisoner and his family had moved to live with his mother-in-law in Ci Man Estate when he prepared to go to Taiwan.
ASSOCIATES
Ine prisoner claimed his friends were mostly decent people while he was still working in the insurance companies, though he did not have much contact with them afterwards. In the past year, the prisoner became more acquainted with the social circle of his next elder brother who believed that the prisoner had kept company with some characters having triad backgrounds of the "Fuk Yee Hing Triad Society" though he claimed they were mostly gainfully employed in the daytime and the prisoner had only joined them for tea or drinking at the night clubs in the evenings. The prisoner denied himself to have any triad affiliation, and claimed he had only come to know the two accomplices for a few months through his associates. Besides these, the prisoner's wife maintained that the prisoner was also associating with some decent friends who torked in the motor car trade.
B.
PERSONS CONTACTED FOR INFORMATION RILEVANT TO THE CONDUCT AND CHARACTER OF THE PRISONER
Madam CHUNG Ling-fung (the prisoner's wife presently living at
415, Hong Nan House, Oi Man Estate, Kowloon)
Madan CHUNG spoke protectively over the prisoner when she was intervieved. She did not raise any complaint about the priscier despite he had been unable to settle down steadily in any gainful employment in the past two years and had to rely heavily on her to support the family living. She claimed she believed the prisoner had already done his best in job hunting and in shouldering his responsibility towards the family, as he did contribute whenever he worked and he had been treating his daughters affectionately all the time. The prisoner's unemployment had brought about some difficulties to the family, as the family could hardly make any concrete planning for the
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