CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940 — Page 86

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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.