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4.
correctly concluded that he had been cheated.
with the assistance
At about 3 p.m. on 19th October 1979
of an associate, took the deceased to a flat in Ngau Tau Kok which
was leased to
Here the deceased was interrogated and
and his accomplices. The petitioner and
assaulted by
TSUI Shing-yau were present. At about 10 p.m. the deceased was
flat by a group of males including the
This was the last time that the
taken from
petitioner and
deceased was seen alive by prosecution witnesses.
5.
The petitioner made four cautioned statements to the police.
made seven. Both convicts admitted that the deceased
was taken to a spot near Cheung Hang Village. TSUI eventually admitted being present at the murder, stating that the petitioner
and another Chinese male killed the deceased with knives. On
7th November 1979 TSUI took police officers to the Castle Peak
Road area where a knife was recovered.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE
6.
The Pathologiest, Dr. P. Y. Lam found over thirty stab wounds on the deceased's body, including stab wounds of the
right lung and liver and a deep gaping cut wound to the neck,
any of which was capable of being fatal.
BACKGROUND
7.
It was the Crown's case that the deceased was murdered
by the petitioner and
who were acting as executioners for attempting to cheat fellow drug traffickers.
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