ANNEX C TO XCR (74)115
NOTE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
CHARGE AND CONVICTION.
CHENG Wing-fei (who was 19 years of age at the time
of the offence) was charged with the murder of WONG Fat-nip.
He was convicted on 8th February 1974 and his appeal to the Full
Court was dismissed on 10th April 1974.
2.
BACKGROUND.
The murder arose out of a dispute over the repayment
of money loaned to a call-girl by a call-girl organisation for
which she worked for a short time. The girl lived with a man
by the name of HO So-kuen, who lived on her earnings as a
call-girl. She transferred from one such organisation to another (of which the deceased was one of the operators) and
the money ($3,500) was advanced to her by the new organisation.
Her association with the new organisation was short-lived,
1.
Negotia-
and she left owing the money which had been lent to her (and
which she had given to HO So-kuen). Shortly before the offence,
she was seized by the new organisation and detained.
tions between HO and the leader of the new organisation about repayment of the money failed and the girl was not released.
There was some evidence that HO and his associates had to
discontinue negotiations at one stage when they were warned
that an armed gang belonging to the new organisation was in
the restaurant where the discussions were taking place.
3.
The killing was probably a mixture of revenge and
an effort to recover the detained girl.
4.
FACTS.
Sometime after 10 p.m. on 28th February 1973 three
men the deceased and two employees of the call-girl organisation
H
and two girls were in a flat in Yen Chow Street watching
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