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3. Mr. LIU Chung, M/57 (the prisoner's clansman, residing at
No. 243-A, Portland Street, 10/F.,
Mongkok, Kowloon)
He had known the prisoner at their native place and after the prisoner's arrival in Hong Kong, he had introduced the prisoner to employment from time to time, including a job at the fish ponds, at the newspapers stall and the gambling dens. He disapproved of the prisoner's addiction to narcotic drugs and had repeatedly advised the prisoner to get rid of the habit but in vain. He felt hopeless for the prisoner unless he could really free himself from drug dependency.
4. Mrs. LIU Chung (wife of the prisoner's clansman)
The prisoner had once worked at her newspapers stall in Mongkok. She considered the prisoner tedious as the prisoner very often approached her and her husband for some petty cash for drugs. She revealed that the prisoner had even once stolen away her purse from her premises.
5. Mrs. NG Yeung Ho (the prisoner's land-lady at No. 8, Battery
Street, 2/F., Kowloon)
The prisoner was very friendly to her and her family members, paid the monthly rental punctually, and was not found to have any particular hobbies. During his 6-month's residence there, the prisoner had not been visited by any of his friends.
I. INTERVIEW WITH THE PRISONER
The prisoner was interviewed in the Stanley Prison on 22nd November, 1973. He was cooperative in telling about his family back- ground but very reserved and reluctant to mention about his problem of addiction and his recent employment with gambling stalls and drug divans. He claimed that he did not know the deceased before the offence and assumed a rather defensive attitude towards the offence. However, he hoped that leniency be granted him.
J. SUMMARY
The prisoner came from a well-off family. However, after he came to Hong Kong for over 20 years, he had left behind him the good family traditions and culture, when he was practically left to fend for himself in Hong Kong though he still had the moral and financial support of his distant uncle. Nevertheless he was not using the help he should get from his distant uncles and clansmen in Hong Kong. For some time after his arrival he was amenable to accept labour work but soon he was caught in the vice of smoking dangerous drugs, the habit of which he could not cure. Moreover he was in bad company and subsequently he was involved in the criminal offence. He had received a low education. this and also his lack of regret and insight to his problem he brought about his present downfall.
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(TSANG Kam-yan) Probation Officer
3.12.73.
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