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whereupon the 4th appellant instructed the others present to give Yeung "a few pieces of things to eat", a phrase which he understood to mean to beat him up. This understanding was confirmed when those present pushed him into another room and there beat him up with fists and feet. This group included the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th appellants and lasted for about 20 minutes, after which Yeung was again given a glass of water to drink, this on the instruction of the 4th appellant. The beating up was then resumed for a further 15 or 20 minutes, in the course of which, when somebody tried to hit Yeung in the face with a small stool, the 4th appellant

instructed the attacker to hit him not in the face but in the

chest. Having again been given a glass of water, Yeung lay down. on the floor from which position he heard Hak Chai instruct a group of five, including the 5th appellant, to fetch a man known as Shanghai Chai, who in fact had been the accomplice of Yeung and the girl in the ruse to obtain money from the 4th appellant by the false pretence that the girl would work in the call-girl establishment.

Having been told to get up from the floor and sit down, Yeung was approached by the 2nd appellant who asked him what had happened but Yeung, having difficulty in speaking, made no reply, whereupon the 2nd appellant punched him hard three times in the chest,

knocking Yeung to the floor; from that position he heard somebody express the view that from his condition, he would soon die.

Subsequently, at knife point, Yeung telephoned to Shanghai Chai,

telling him where he was and asserting that he had gone there

voluntarily in order to check certain accounts; Shanghai Chai,

disbelieving that the caller was in fact YEUNG Shing, hung up the

telephone. Yeung then lay down again on the floor and about an hour

later Shanghai Chai was brought into the room by a group of men,

invited to look at Yeung's injuries and told that he, Shanghai Chai,

had caused Yeung to sustain those injuries.

Both Yeung and Shanghai Chai were then escorted to a

building in Pak Sha Road, very near the Po Ming Mansions, Yeung,

on his evidence, being assisted by a man on each side since he could

not walk though such assistance was denied by the 5th appellant. In the Pak Sha Road building the two were taken into a sitting room where all five appellants were present together with Hak Chai and others including some girls. Shanghai Chai was kicked on to a sofa on which