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deceased was to deliver at the Washington Guest House in Kowloon the following day.
the would-be purchaser, lived at the guest-house which he owned as a partner. On 16th October 1979 the deceased arranged for two men claiming to be detectives to pretend to "arrest" him, with dangerous drugs on him, at the guest house where the dangerous drugs were supposed to be handed over by the deceased to
The deceased
was thus taken away by these two men without delivering the drugs.
5.
All enquiries made by the middleman that evening failed to establish the whereabouts of the deceased at any police station.
correctly concluded that he had been cheated. On 19th
October 1979
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with his associates took the deceased to
a leased flat in Ngau Tau Kok. Here the deceased was interrogated and assaulted by
and his accomplices. The petitioner and CHENG Hok-ling were present. At about 8 p.m. the deceased was taken from the flat by a group of males including the petitioner
and
This was the last time that the deceased
was seen alive by the prosecution witnesses.
6.
The petitioner made two cautioned statements to the
police which were admitted in evidence at the trial. In both
statements he admitted being present when the deceased was knifed,
but denied doing any of the knifing himself. There was also in evidence a statement by
containing a complete
confession by CHENG to the murder of the deceased by way of
execution, though this statement as a matter of law was not evidence against the petitioner.
7.
On 7th November 1979 the petitioner took police officers
to the hillside below Castle Peak Road area where a knife was
recovered.
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