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any of you would have any remaining doubt as to where those
stab wounds were inflicted. It is not likely that the stab
wounds could have been inflicted on the accused man's bunk if
you found the deceased man's blanket in that condition and
on his own bed, but we know nothing about that and you must
put all the evidence about that blanket out of your minds
entirely. Similarly, we have not the faintest idea whether
this red garment was worn as a sleeping garment by the
deceased or not. We have been told by witnesses that there
was a pool of blood where the deceased man fell and lay. We
have been told by witnesses that there must have been a track
of blood along the centre passage of No. 2 hut, but no police
officer has come forward to say "D went there and I saw a
track of blood which ran from one place to another" all we
have is a dead man, a knife and a prisoner; and I think all
of us justly can express our regret that we have not been
given a little more help in our extremely onerous task on
matters that were so manifestly susceptible of accurate proof
as these matters I have just mentioned. In these circumstances
we have to make the best of such matter as we have and there
is not much of it, but let me remind you of what we have.
We have the early hours of the morning of 30th May,
sometime shortly after 5 when in the ordinary nature of things
most people are sound asleep. we know that two people Lo Yee
in the same hut and Ha Kam Sing in the adjoining hut, were
awakened by shouts of 'save life' and it is suggested that the
person who shouted was wong Ka Yan. Ha Kam sing ran over from
his hut to No.2 and Lo Yee leapt from his bed when he saw what
was happening. What he saw was that Wong Ka Yan was in his
own bed, the bunk coloured pink on your plan, and that he
appeared to be rising from his bed. When Lo Yee looked across
he saw that the accused man was standing beside the bed on the
side where there is a door and Wong Ka Yan leapt from his bed
and ran along the centre passage between the two rows of bunks
towards the north door. That course took him past Lo Yee's bur