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when he told
. J. .
that it was suspected that
and the
deceased had conspired together to deceive "them and where he
made a remark to the effect that the people who had beaten
the previous night were his subordinates.
was subjected
to further beatings on the 18th and as a result of this he telephoned
the deceased making an appointment to meet him at the Ruby Restaurant
shortly after 5 o'clock on the 18th, but he was not allowed to keep
that appointment. Ah Woon and the 1st defendant both left the Ngau
Tau Kok flat leaving
eing guarded by 4 other people.
from the
The
1st defendant travelled with the deceased and
Washington Guest House to Ah Woon's Ngau Tau Kok flat on the 19th
October where a confrontation took place between
deceased.
f
and the
The deceased admitted that he had received $16,500 from
and was subsequently subjected to a severe beating at the
time when, according to
and the 1st defendant and
the 2nd defendant were in a small room with the deceased. Two
knives were seen in the premises at this time, one being what was
described as an ox-bone knife about 18-24" long tapering to a point
with an approximate 9" blade similiar to a butcher's knife, and
the other being described as a scout knife. (The injuries found on
the body of the deceased were consistent according to the medical
evidence with having been caused by knives of the description of
these two knives.) The cut on the neck which was fatal was
consistent with having been caused by the ox-bone knife, and the
two stab wounds which were described as being fatal could, according
to the medical evidence, have been caused by the scout knife.
Sometime after 8 o'clock on the evening of 19th October
the deceased was taken away from
s Ngau Tau Kok flat to a
hillside where the injuries were inflicted upon him from which he
died.
A
It was the 1st defendant's defence that he had an alibi
and could not have been present on the hillside when these injuries were inflicted. He was supported in this contention by the 2nd
.defendant who claimed to have been at the hillside.