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Mr. Mills opened the store room door and she then saw a foot and

part of a leg clad in trousers which she recognised as those worn by

her servant. She then at once left the flat and went to Mr. Mills'

apartment and remained there until the police came.

Meanwhile

Mr. Mills by craning around the store room door was able to see the

dead body of WONG Yuk-lin lying in the position shown in the photograph exh. P(G). He at once dialled 999 using the telephone

in the flat and then went to fetch a Superintendent Harris, a friend of

his who lived in the same block.

The Government pathologist, Dr. Frederick Ong examined the

body before it was removed from the store room. The girl was lying on her back face upward with her leg spread wide. The body was fully

clothed the left arm stretched out straight from the shoulder palm

upward; the right arm being tucked beneath the body and draw across it

from right to left. Two knives had been driven into the front of

the girl's throat and were still protruding there from two others were

lying by the body one with a bent blade and one with a broken blade.

Two pieces of the broken blade were later found embedded in tissues of

the neck. All four knives were part of the equipment of the flat and

were of a domestic character, one of those in the throat being a blunt

broad-bladed cake knife. A length of light cord was found looped

around both wrists and around the neck of the deceased but nowhere was

it drawn tightly about the body. The hyoid bone was broken and Dr. Ong

had no hesitation in ascribing manual strangulation as the cause of

death. He was of the opinion that the knives had probably been

driven into the throat immediately after the strangulation. There

was no sign of sexual assault. Dr. Ong placed the time of death between

1 and 3 p.m. on the 17th.

The last person to see the deceased alive was a servant from

the flat immediately above WONG Yuk-lan. She told the court that upon

the 17th the murdered girl had come up to her flat bringing her something

which she had purchased on her behalf. They had a conversation and the

deceased left shortly after 1.20 p.m. and returned to her own premises.

At about 2.00 p.m. WONG Yuk-lan went down to Flat 4 in order to borrow

an electric iron. She was, however, unable to get in although she

pressed the bell several times. She then returned to her own work

in Flat 5 immediately above and at about 4.00 p.m. was approached by

another delivery boy this time delivering groceries to Flat 4 who