application for adjournment, he would have had the opportunity
to study the record more carefully and in greater detail.
6. In truth and in fact of course Your Petitioner was
there at the Paris Billiard Saloon, 23 Nelson Street, Kowloon,
first floor, on the morning of the 31st day of August 1973
when, as a result of the incident that happened then, the
said deceased died. Your Petitioner craves leave now to tell
the whole truth, whether or not Your Excellency in Council
believes his story. Your Petitioner is now aged 25 and before
his arrest was the main support of his family including a sick
father (because of an injury he suffered arising out of his
work), a mother and a younger sister. Your Petitioner had
obtained work in Ah Luen Wig Factory in Tsuen Wan and worked
there for about two years, renting a room with a friend in
Castle Peak Road. It was when the wig factory suddenly closed
down that Your Petitioner, looking back, considers to have bee
the turning point of his life. Really it was the point at
which Your Petitioner started, unconsciously, to go downhill.
Your Petitioner obtained a job in the Chit Wo Packing Factory
on Tsing Yi Island doing welding work. He was not happy at
the factory, but whilst working there applied to join the
Police Force, passed both the oral and written tests but was
disqualified when a medical check-up revealed that he was
suffering from slight lung illness (TB?). Subsequently he
resigned from the factory and returned to his father's stone
hut, which was in Cheung Chau Island.
7.
But a family cannot live on fresh air and, as the
rice winner of this family, Your Petitioner had to get
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