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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON LIU CHU

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On 31st August 1973, LIU Chu was convicted of the murder of PAK Kwong-woon and was sentenced to death. The report to the Governor by Mr Commissioner T. L. Yang, the trial transcript, and the judge's summing up have already been circulated. Honourable Members may wish to study again the trial judge's report at Annex A.

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An appeal by Liu against conviction was considered by the Full Court on 5th November 1973 and was dismissed. A copy of the judgment of the Full Court is at Annex B and a note by the Attorney General is at Annex C.

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A petition for clemency is submitted at Annex D.

Also annexed are a report by the Secretary for the New Territories (Annex E), a report by a probation officer (Annex F) including a supplementary social enquiry report (Annex G) and a police antecedent statement (Annex H),

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Honourable Members will be asked to advise whether the law should take its course or whether the sentence passed on LIU Chu should be commuted. (If His excellency decides that the sentence should be commuted, Honourable Members will be asked to advise on the sentence of imprisonment which should be substituted for the death sentence).

1st May 1974

(GR 12/2647/73)

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