His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong
Government House,
Hong Kong.
Supreme Court, Battery Path, Hong Kong.
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25th March, 1982
Your Excellency,
bongo m. Criminal Case No. 42 of 1981
Regina v
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In accordance with Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instructions
I report upon the case of
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who were convicted by a jury on the 24th
April 1981 and sentenced by me to death for the murder of a Chinese
man WONG Chun-leung on the 19th October 1979.
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This case was a retrial. The two prisoners had originally been tried in Criminal Sessions Case No. 21 of 1980 before a jury
and been convicted and sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal in Criminal Appeal No. 512/80 allowed the appeal, because of a single sentence in the learned judge's summing up. They nevertheless
considered it to be a strong case and ordered a retrial.
In my summing up to the jury I was careful to omit the
sentence from the previous summing up which had been criticized by the Court of Appeal. I also dealt with the evidence at greater length than in the previous summing up at 8.
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I agree with the verdicts of the jury convicting these
two young men of murder.
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On the 15th October 1979, evidence had been given that a
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sum of $18,000 had been handed over by a man called
another man called
who was the middleman in a drug deal.
gave evidence that he was supposed to pay the supplier of the drugs, that is the deceased on delivery of the drugs. However, he kept $1,500 as his own commission and handed over $16,500 to the
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