TNAG-0400-FCO40-446-Review-of-the-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 153

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FIRST MAN

TO HANG

IN

1

7 YEARS

HONG KONG

STANDARD.

APRIL 11TH. 73

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THE FIRST mau to be hanged in Hongkong in seven years will die in two weeks' time.

The condemned man encklolt.

28-year-old

is

Kwok-cheonst

killed for $100.

Tsoi

The sun, Ng Sung por, 20, who Wan ar

who

The last execution was on November 16, 1966.

The Governor Sir Murray Macl chose has refused to grant Isoi reprieve after taking into consideration the advice of the Executive Council.

No date has yet been fixed for the hanging, but informed sources told the Standard inst night that Tol will take his walk to the gallows in two weeks.

There are ten other men on death row in Stanley Prison still awaiting a decision on their lives

Legislativu

nenerally

councillon,

decian to exeunte iauí,

*The law on hanging should be applied from time to time," Mr R.11. Lobo said

"The community at large are living in constant fear from knife-wielding thugs who resort to killing." he said.

am SUTC when the decision was made it must have been given lengthy deliberation by the Executive Council and they certainly know what they were doing by upholding the death sentence of the High Court," he added.

Dr S.Y. Chung, who is also an Executive Council member, told the Standard last night that the decision Was correct one" and should be a deterrent to potential criminals.

MAHJONG

"Crimes of violence have been rising and killings have become * part of life in Hongkong." Dr Chung sald.

แ

"I am sure that the hanging

will be a deterrent to future criminals.'

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Tsoi was found guilty on November 2 of the murder of a youth who went to bis inother's help when she was robbed of $100 by three masked men while playing mahjong.

Á Criminal Sessions jury of five men and two women also found Twoi guilty of a charge of robbery.

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Commissioner Morley-John in the Supreme Court heard that Mrs Ng Leung-shing WDB playing mahjong with three friends af 85A. Wung Mo Kiu, Yuenlong. Suddenly three masked men, including Tsoi, broke in. One of them pointed Я triangular file at her chest, and said: "Don't move. I want money.

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One of the mahjong players gave the thugs $100.

Mrs Ng then shouted to her son who was studying in the

polixenian, rushed downstans

One of the rehbers switched oll the light and there was complete darkness for aboitt three minutUK,

Mrs Np told the count that in the dim light from the cockloff she evénally found her son bleeding and lying at the bottom of the stars. He

sent wus

{o the Pok OF filospital but he was dead on

arrival.

He died of "shock and bleeding" due to a four-inch deep stab wound in the heart."

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