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helped Yeung to lie down on a rubber mat on the floor and then left

the building.

Yeung, who described himself as unable to stand or even sit up, remained in that flat during that day; he was given food and water and a bone setter was brought to him to attend to his injuries. In the afternoon of the following day police arrived at the flat and Yeung was sent by ambulance to Queen Mary Hospital

where he remained for four days.

The medical evidence upon his condition included tenderness on deep palpation over both sides of the lower chest wall, bruising over the whole of the anterior chest wall and on both shoulder and both wrist regions; multiple superficial abrasions at the back, on the abdomen and on both shins, a fracture of the right anterior ninth rib and a crack fracture of the axillary portion of the left

ninth rib.

An autopsy was performed upon Shanghai Chai and revealed bruising and abrasions over the head, the front and back of the trunk and both upper limbs; some of the bruises were parallel with

weals in between and were consistent with having been produced by an

instrument such as a rod; there were multiple abrasions not of the sliding type; bruisings on the right forehead and left eyebrow; abrasions on the right eyebrow, the outer end of the right eye and

the left side of the chin; both lips were swollen and bruised on

the inside and the front of both the upper and lower gums were

bruised as were the left arm, the back, the right forearm and the

elbow. There were numerous other bruisings and abrasions. Internally

there was generalised bruising of the tissues on the front of the

chest with a blood clot of about two inches in diameter over the front

of the lower part of the breast bone; 17 ribs were fractured, one

of them in two places, and the bruising around all these fractures

indicated that the fractures were sustained while Shanghai Chai was

still alive; there was blood and blood clots in both the right and

the left chest cavity, and lacerations on the two surfaces of the

middle and lower lobe of the right lung and of the lower lobe of

the left lung; there was bruising on the left back of the brain;

the gullet, windpipe and smaller air passages contained vomitus and

the immediate cause of death was asphyxia due to inhalation of vomitus but the doctor who conducted the autopsy was of the opinion that had