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least of all the accused man himself, that any of these
circumstances exist here, befause we know that having picked
up that chopper he advanced triumphantly to the attack and
the moment he took the first step forward there goes th
defence of self-defence. So you can leave that out of
your calculations once and for all.
Mr. Prentis was correct when he said to you that
there can here be but one of two verdicts
or Guilty of Manslaughter.
guilty of Murder
The prisoner goes on and says "Having picked up this
chopper, anticipating as I did an attack fromboth men, I was not going to be cornered, so I moved my position."
Firstly in the Court below he said he advanced back to
where these men were standing. When he was pressed today
he said "I did nothing of the sort, I never said I did that,
I took two paces to the right so as not to be cornered,
but ultimately he said "Yes, I went out to the middle of
the Street." I had the chopper up like this and it was
spinning round." Off went Chan Kam On
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he was out of the
picture entirely, but Leung Ki was a very tenacious fellow. "In spite of my chopper he came at me again with his fists and he actually hit me twice on the chest," touched me'
I think were his own words twice on the chest. You will
appreciate, of course, gentlemen, there were no wounds,
even superficial bruises on the forearms or anywhere on
the arms of Leung Ki but "despite the chopper he came at
me. All I did was to keep it revolving to protect me.Then
Leung Ki took a real risk- he made a dive at me lower
down. He got his head down, came at me and I realised
that I had cut him on the back of the neck."
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"Well, he went on fighting. The cut on the back of
He went the neck was 4" long and went down to the bone.