Mr T
Report to His Excellency the Governor in respect of Criminal Case No.43 of 1980
His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.
Your Excellency,
aged 24
I have the honour to report pursuant to Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instructions that on the 13th day of January 1981 the above named prisoner was convicted by a jury of the murder of Peter Chan Wun Hing. Sentence of death was imposed.
In this matter the accused faced the charge that he and another accused
Fan between the 7th day of August 1979 and the 17th day of August 1979 at Yuen Long, New Territories in this Colony murdered Chan Wun Hing alias Peter. He pleaded not guilty to that charge.
The circumstances of the offence were as follows:-
The accused and other persons were involved in an attempt to transport dangerous drugs from Hong Kong to Holland in May of 1979. The carrier used by the syndicate was a young woman named Kong Lai King who was arrested by the French Customs upon her arrival in Paris. She was later tried by a French Court and sentenced to imprisonment for four years. The accused came to believe that the deceased had not told him the truth about the loss of the drugs and had benefited financially in some way from that loss. It was clear from the evidence that he formed the intention to try to recover money from the deceased and to murder him. He enlisted the support of one
who was jointly charged with him and found guilty of manslaughter, to carry out these intentions. The evidence revealed that the plan was to lure the deceased to a flat in Yuen Long, which had been specially hired for this purpose, upon the pretext that he would be able to obtain dangerous drugs from a person to whom he would be introduced by the accused at that flat. It appears to have been intended that the deceased be then overpowered and the money he was carrying be taken from him, that he then be forced to make a recording which would be used to extort money from his family and that he then be killed. It was also part of the plan that the body of the deceased would be disposed of by dismembering it and putting the dismembered parts through a mincing machine and then disposing of the parts that could not be minced, such as the head and the larger bones, by throwing them in the sea. Pursuant to this plan, the accused rented a flat and lured the deceased to it. There was no evidence that the part of the plan relating to the extortion of money from the family of the deceased was ever carried out. However, it was clear from the evidence that the deceased was killed after he had been lured to the flat and that the money he was then carrying was taken from him and that he was then dismembered and put through a mincing machine and that the head and other bones were then thrown into the sea. This was a carefully planned murder and am unable to see any real circumstance of mitigation.
4th December 1981.
(N.P. Power)
Judge of the High Court
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