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which Your Petitioner belonged. Your Petitioner seized a

billiard cue and started to join in the fight:

11. At a certain stage of the fight, someone said

"let the two Tai Los fight it out together!" and Your

Petitioner saw Wah Tsai and the deceased fighting with

billiard cues, whilst the rest of the two gangs stood by

each guarding the other to see that they did not join in.

Your Petitioner must say at that moment, that his feeling

was one of relief that the two triad societies had decided

to leave it to the two leaders, especially as the 14K

contingent was so much larger than his own. After the

fight, Your Petitioner and Wah Tsai and his friends all

left the scene. Your Petitioner did not know then that

anyone had been severely injured.

12.

Your Petitioner does not know the exact date he ceased

to see Wah Tsai (whose surname is Leung) but he did afterwards

hear that Wah Tsai had gone to Macau. About three months

after these events i.e. about Mid November, Your Petitioner

was arrested and taken first of all to the Shamshuipo and then

to the Mongkok Police Station. In the Mongkok Police Station,

certain detectives tried to force Your Petitioner to disclose

the number of people and the names of those that had

participated in the fight, but Your Petitioner chose, perhaps

stupidly, to remain silent. Your Petitioner does stress

however that since he was small he had never hated anyone,

or even fought with anyone until the events detailed above.

He has never before done a criminal act nor has he any

previous criminal record.

13. Your Petitioner was not born in Hong Kong but

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