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evidence that the searching police heard anybody shout for help.
Their evidence was that they found the prisoner lying down in
the back of the lorry.
On the evidence as a whole I am in full agreement with
the verdict returned by the jury. Nobody knows why the prisoner
went to the James Bond Restaurant or why he stabbed the deceased
or how he was wounded in return. His motive may have been one of
robbery. However evidence was adduced by the managing director
of the restaurant that nothing had been taken from the premises.
The prisoner may have been foiled in his attempt to rob by the
deceased, and having been wounded ran away without taking anything.
I do not know. But it is clear from the evidence as believed by
the jury that the prisoner did go to the James Bond Restaurant on
the night in question armed with a knife which he used to fatally
stab the deceased.
From the above it is clear that no mitigating circumstances
arose out of this case, but should Your Excellency decide to commute the death sentence I would respectfully recommend that a sentence
of 20 years' imprisonment be substituted for the sentence of death.
16th September, 1974.
Md. (M. Morley-John, J.)
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