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A Supreme Court Judge yesterday called upon the authorities to to ban the manufacture and suto of triangular scrapers.

Mr Commissioner Morley- John made the appeal as he sentenced a 32-year-old man, Chiu Hoi-kwok, to 10 years for manslaughter.

A Criminal Sessions jury on Thursday found Chiu not guilty of murdering Mr Ng Sung- kwong but guilty of manslaughter.

They, however, found another man. Choi Kwok- cheung (28), guilty of murder. Choi was sentenced to death by Mr Commissioner Morley-John on Thursday.

Ng was killed when Chiu. Choi and a third defendant,

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Tsang Wai-keung (25), set upon his mother and friends while they were playing mahjong in a store in Yuen Long in the carly hours of January 26. The victims were also robbed of their money,

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the defendants rushed towards Ng when he vied to defend his mouer. Ng, who was stabbed once with a triangular scraper. died later.

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on Chiu yesterday. the Judge said: Look at these scrapers. They Have a pointed sale which is needle ship. The blade is six- inch long with three sharp anges. It is a terrible weapon and, in my opinion, some other type of tool could and should be used to scrape paint and

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"Personally, I should like to are the authorities take steps to han the manufacture and sale of this of scrapers."

Ope He also sentenced Chiu and Tsang each to six and a half years' jail for robo try.

Chil's robbery sentence was 10 ΓΚΑ concurrent with the manslaughter one.

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noted that armed. robberies had reached alarming proportions in the Colony, and srid that those perpetrating such crimes must expect long sentences of imprisonment.

Fie stressed that he was not considering the fact that a man was killed during this robbery when deciding the sentence.

"But this is a bad case when innocent citizens were peacefully playing mahjong in their home and you burst in up them. You were masked, armed with these vicious triangular scrapers, and you robbed them.

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