6.
Both
had long chat over the telephone with his friends. Mrs. MA and her husband had the feeling that the Prisoner was a simple-minded but boastful young man, and was always eager to help his friends.
11. Mr. LAI, 15-year-old, Form 3 student, living next door
to the Prisoner at the roof-top of No. 525, Shun Ning Road, Kowloon.
The Prisoner was not a rude person and had made no dispute with the neighbours in the vicinity during his three- months' stay there. However, he used to return home in late evenings or in early mornings.
G. INTERVIEW WITH THE PRISONER
The Prisoner was interviewed at Stanley Prison on 26th June, 1974. He blamed no one but himself for his present predicament and attributed his misconduct to his association with evil characters who introduced him to work at the gambling den and induced him to join the triad society. He claimed that he did not know the deceased and in the incident he was asked to
help 1 his friend. He begged for mercy so as to support his parents in their advanced ages.
H. SUMMARY
As afore-mentioned, the Prisoner was a school drop-out due to hardship in his parents' circumstances, for which he had tried to drift between part-time studies and full-time job finally without any attainment of a skill. His parents were virtually helpless in keeping contact with him especially since early 1973 when he kept bad company and was lured into a job with an unlawful gambling stall for high income. He then picked up playing billiards
at saloon where he also came into contact with dubious characters. He had changed from a simple-minded country boy to a fashionably- dressed misspent youth. He was one of the typical city youths with loss of good identities with a mistaken belief in quick riches and wrong worship of bad company due to unrewarding school career and non-support from his poor parents. His parents were poor but in order to keep a simple home, being an elder son, he needed not resort to taking up an unlawful job for keeping his family. He himself was to blame for the wrong moves he had taken.
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(TSANG Kam-yan) Probation Officer
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