TNAG-0554-FCO40-649-Review-of-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1975 — Page 153

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"On the day of the homicide, I went to the

cakes room of the Hotel Miramar, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, at about 4 p.m. to locate my friend Tang Kwun-ki. I borrowed a bone knife. At the time I just told my friend Tang Kwun-ki that I was borrowing it for use back in Lantao Island, but actually I was going to use the knife at the Fung Wah Mansion, Cheung Hong Street, 11th floor, Flat 21, North Point, to rob. On arrival at the door, we only saw a woman outside the door waiting for us to enter the house by nodding her head. I then entered the house with LAM Kwok-hung and WONG Tung-shing, followed by the woman. woman said to us, 'He is in the room watching television'.

... Ah Hung and I entered the room first and saw a man sitting and watching television. I pointed the bone knife I was holding at the man, and WONG Tung-shing also pointed a triangular file at the man. He was very surprised and stared at us. I told him that we had come for the purpose of robbing him of property and not killing. On hearing this he became very co-operative and took out voluntarily a wallet containing only $370 Hong Kong currency. After I took the money, LAM Kwok- hung tied up the man's hands and feet with strings. LAM Kwok-hung then pushed the man onto the bed and then covered him up with a woollen blanket and pillow and gagged his mouth with handkerchief. We searched for property in the room and found two wrist watches and one lighter which I put in my pocket

I then went to the sitting- room and cut off the telephone wire, and then asked them to leave quickly by the front door. But the iron gate was locked. The woman handed a bundle of keys to me to open the iron gate and leave. We boarded a taxi outside the Ying Wong Restaurant and went to CHENG Pak-hei's house in the Kwok Man Building, Marsh Road, 5th floor, Wanchai. He was told of the robbery and he was very happy, saying we had done a good job.

..... Before this robbery CHENG Pak-hei had discussed with me several times."

The same statement contained, amongst other things, the following sentence "I then went into the room and stabbed the man two times in the chest with the bone knife ....." but he said this sentence did not represent the truth and that he had been forced to make it.