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8. Mr. LAM Kee-cheung (former employer of the Prisoner,
proprietor of the Lam Kee Cheung Saw-pill at No. 98, Lower Kwai Chung Road, Kowloon)
The Prisoner had been a labourer with the saw-mill for about a year. He was quite a lazy worker and very often failed to retum to work. Mr. Lam pointed out that the Prisoner had borrowed from him $500 some time in 1971 and failed to return to work since then.
9. Mr. SO, aged 50. (Neighbour of the Prisoner, operating a small
store at No. 332, Section 5, Hing Wah
· Resettlement Area, Chai Wan)
Mr. SO had lived there for over 20 years and was familiar with the Prisoner since his early ages. The Prisoner was said to be a rather polite young man in the area and he had never created any trouble in their vicinity. Mr. So said he had no knowledge about his hobby of gambling.
10. Mr. LAW, aged 17 (Neighbour of the Prisoner, a student residing
on 6/F of Block 15, Valley Road Estate, Kowloon)
He pointed out that the Prisoner and his two brothers (who were also condemned prisoners in this case) liked to race their motor cycles in their vicinity at mid-nights giving other residents much nuisance. Besides, they also liked to disturb others while playing at their nearby ball-ground.
F. INTERVIEW WITH THE PRISONER
The Prisoner was interviewed at Stanley Prison on 16th December, 1974. He frankly admitted that he had been a member of the "Sze Tai" triad society in Shaukiwan area for years. He liked gambling and ball-room going very much, and very often he went to gamble at the casino in Macau. He said that he had been indebted to an illegal money-lender amounting to $7,500 and had been urgdd to clear the loan; hence, having no other solutions, he resorted to robbery. He hoped for a chance of mercy.
'G. ́ ́ SUMMARY
The Prisoner was a school drop-out due to family poverty as well as inadequate parental guidance. He had become more attached to bad company when he found his school career and family life unrewarding. With frustrations in employment, he had pursued an expensive standard of living with racing cycles and developed a mistaken belief in quick riches and easy money so as to maintain his hobbies, and became more and more unrealistic, putting his own fate on the gambling tables. His excessive ambition, which he should regret now, had caused him his present trouble. Worst of all, he had set bad example to his young brothers who were unfortunately also involved in crime.
Peaing
(TSANG Kam-yan)
Probation Officer
27.12.1974
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