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(b) I have never made any confession or admission of

my guilt of the said offence to any person and

I have at all times, and still do, maintain my

innocence.

(c) I did not give evidence on my own behalf at my

trial but I had repeatedly given a consistent

account of my movements during the day when the

said offence occurred both to the police and to

psychiatrists questioning me at the request of the

prosecution. Had I given evidence at my trial there

would have been nothing further I could have said

in my own behalf other then what I had already told

to those persons. Further my counsel advised me

that I was adopting a proper course in deciding not

to give evidence myself and I respectfully submit

that the course that I adopted should not be held

against.me.

(d) at my trial my counsel was refused permission by the

learned trial judge to call as witness in my defence

Dr. W.L. Pang who would have given evidence:-

(i) that he was the Psychiatrist-in-charge, of the

Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre,

(ii) that at the request of the prosecution I was

remanded to that Centre for five months (October,

November, December, 1972, and January and part

of February 1973) for psychiatric examination,

(iii) that during that period I was examined by him

and two other psychiatrists on many occasions

and that I gave a consistent account of my

moments on the day of the offence and categorically

denied that I had committed that offence,

(iv) that I was also questioned under abreaction

(by the giving of a hypnotic and methedrine