TNAG-0488-FCO40-553-Review-of-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1974 — Page 133

SOCIAL ENQUIRY

LEUNG Wang @ LEUNG Wing-sang

CONDEMNED PRISONER

ANNEX/XCR(74) 132

Religion: Ancestral worship

Native Place : Sze Wui, Kwangtung, China.

Age: The Prisoner was born on 27th May, 1953, according to his

Hong Kong Birth Certificate No. 287 H.H. He will be 21 years old on 27th May, 1974.

A. GENERAL INFORMATION

The Prisoner came from an ill-fated family whose parents suffered from chronic illness and poverty. He is the fourth child of nine brothers and sisters.

Partly because of financial problem and partly because of little interest in study, the Prisoner had received only 4 years schooling before he went to work. He spent the first three years in a metal-factory as an apprentice and another half year as a casual labourer in a construction company. As a person with little education and engaged as semi-skilled workman, he had probably received very little job satisfaction. He was perhaps tempted by the lucrative earnings from working for various gambling stalls about which he had detailedly mentioned to the probation officer. He was also said to have worked at gambling stalls at Tsuen Wan, Yau Ma Tei, and Castle Peak, N.T. when he could earn about $100.00 a day when he ranaged to contribute half of his income to his family, until he was arrested for the present offence.

B. FAMILY COMPOSITION

Father LEUNG Kou, 54, an ex-metal-worker, had suffered from tuberculosis for 4 years; attended medical treatment in Haven of Hope Tuberculosis Santtorium in Junk Bay from 12th February 1971 to 18th June 1972, now on regular medical check-up.

Mother LAW Fung-hing, 54, also an ex-tuberculosis

patient, had received treatment in the above- named sanitorium for 5 months in 1972.

She

is not in sound health but was not required to attend for clinical follow-up treatment.

Brothers: 1. LEUNG Chung Ming, 27, formerly van-driver,

unemployed for 6 months;

Wife LAM Suk-kuen, 26, suffering from

tuberculosis-cancer attending medical treatment in the said Sanitorium as out-patient.

Daughter: LEUNG Ka-man, one year and seven

months old.

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