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B. Family Composition
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Father
Mother
: CHAN Yuen, M/81 yr., both legs paralysed as a consequence
of traffic accident. Admitted into the Tung Wah David Trench Home for the Aged since 29.3.1977.
: AU Yip, F/80 yr., housewife. Stayed and supported by 2 grandsons (of her late 2nd son). This family moved to new address at Rm. 311, Pak Fung House, Choi Wan Estate, Kowloon since 1.9.1981.
Seend mother: died in 1950 in Mainland China.
Siblings
: 1. CHAN Ching, M/about 60 yr., married and lived apart
in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
2. CHAN Lap-ching, married with 4 children; committed
suicide with his wife in Mainland China in 1961
for political reason.
3. The Prisoner.
4. CHAN Wan, M/about 50 yr., married and lived apart in
Tze Wan Shan Estate, Kowloon.
5. CHAN Kin, M/about 48 yr., lived in working place in
Tsuen Wan, New Territories.
6. Youngest sister deceased became of lung illness.
Nephews & niece of late 2nd brother:
1. CHAN Chi-kin, male, committed suicide in 1974 due
to business failure.
2. CHAN To-fa, female, married and lived apart. 3. CHAN Shek, M/about 25 yr. ) screen printing workers, 4. CHAN Ching, M/23 yr. ) living with Prisoner's mother.
Home Environment
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This was the address of a private tenement housing in the district. Prisoner rented a middle room to live in after work before the present offence. He had been living in this address for over 3 years paying a monthly rent of $120. The whole floor area was partitioned into 6 cubicles occupied by 7 tenants including Prisoner and the victim who was in fact the house owner. The victim was an aged woman living alone. Instead of collecting the rent herself, she allowed a rubbish collecting woman living nearby to be the principal tenant for her. After the fire incident, all the former tenants moved away. The flat was re-decorated similarly and sub- letted to 6 new tenants who only returned after work in the evening. The house was thus locked up most of the day. All the former tenants could not be contacted for obtaining relevant information.
2. 6D, Wing Hing Street, 1/F., Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
This was the address last recorded by police before Prisoner's arrest. Prisoner rented 1 room to live alone. Information collected that the landlady's family also lived in the same flat. Unfortunately, 2 home visits had been made to the captioned address but was told behind closed door that no such tenant had lived there in the first visit while totally shut out with no one replying in the second occasion. Prisoner's living condition and relationship with oo-tenant here thus could not be assessed.
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