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teahouse in Kowloon. Three of the Chinese males got into the

back seat whilst one sat in front. One of the men in the back

produced a revolver and the driver was forced to drive the car

to Clearwater Bay Road. There the driver was forced to walk down

the hillside for some 300-400 yards into some bushes and was tied up and gagged. The car was then driven away by the assailants. At about 11.10 a.m. of the same day (14th August 1973) eight

Chinese males entered the Chartered Bank situated at the corner

of Cheung Wah Street and Un Chau Street in Shamshuipo.

Six were

wearing hoods and two were wearing forage caps. Of the eight,

four carried guns and two carried knives. In the bank a security

guard had his revolver snatched by a robber after the lanyard

had been cut with a knife, and he was hit on the head and neck

which rendered him unconscious. During the robbery a messenger

was also hit on the head with a revolver and another security guard

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had his revolver snatched. Before the robbers left the bank

three female staff members were forced to leave the bank with

them two of the three girls were released outside and one was

forced to get into the vehicle. At the time when the robbers

were coming out of the bank there was a Securicor van parked near

its entrance. The robbers pointed revolvers at the two occupants of the van and forced them to get out and when one was slow in

alighting from the vehicle he was hit on the head and was also

rendered unconscious.

The car,

with the eight robbers and the

girl hostage, was then driven along Cheung Sha Wan Road, where

it mounted the pavement, and then collided with a bus at the

junction of Tonkin Street. Immediately after the collision the

occupants got out of the car and the girl escaped. All the robbers ran up Tonkin Street. The fourth accused was identified by the bus

driver as the driver of the get-away car. Two of the robbers, whilst running up Tonkin Street, drew their revolvers and the bus driver said he heard "bangs" but P.C. 6369, who saw a gun being drawn and pointed in the direction of the police van, did not say whether shots were fired. One of the robbers running up Tonkin Street threw a plastic bag containing a knife into the nullah. During the

escape some of the robbers jumped across the central railing to the south-bound carriageway of Tonkin Street where they forced the driver of a red Mercedes Benz, at gun-point, to get out and the vehicle was taken. The driver of the red Mercedes Benz said that