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Mr. H. V. Lo's shroff and appearing on the receipt for
the consultation fee, i..., Cheng Shiu Vu, was a
subtle attempt to make it appear that it was the
prisoner, and that all three visits were made simply
in order to manufacture material for subsequent
blackmail.
The defence did not attempt to suggest
how the visits to Mr. Davide on and Mr.C.T.Kwan
could have been utilised for the purpose of blackmail,
and one would have thought that a receipt in the
name Cheng Kwak Yau would have been more useful for
purposes of blackmail than a receipt in the fictitious
name Cheng Shiu Wu,
The defence also suggested in their
cross-examination that the plot to "smack" Fung's
fage on the early morning of the 21st March was also
arranged in order to manufastuze material for black-
mail. They accepted as substantially true the account
of the dianer, the adjournment to the Nathan Hotel,
and the attempt to get Fung out of his room for the
purpose of the assault: see, for instance, Mr. Jenkin's
question on page 49 of the transcript, "Cheng did not
want to agree but at last agreed”. Mr. Potter in
his address to the jury said that the prisoner would
not have gone to the Nathan Hotel to slap Fung's
face if he had already been trying to arrange for
his murder, but it is very doubtful if the point is
at all sound paychologically. The defence suggested
that the alleged blackmailing plot was fomed, with Fung, long before the morning of the 21st March.
They pointed, inter alia, to the feet that Zimmern
stayed at the Fathan Hotel from the 10th to the 14th