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TO:
HIS EXCELI ENCY SIR CRAWFORD MURRAY MACLEHOSE, KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHER ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST, GEORGE, MEMBER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG AND 113 DEPENDENCIES AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, IN COUNCIL
ANNEX TO XCR(75)33
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF CHAN PAK HUNG ALIAS CHAN HUNG, CONDEMNED PRISONER NO. 15983 A PRISONER IN H. M. STANLEY PRISON, HONG KONG,
RESPECTFULLY SHEVETH AS FOLLOWS ›
1.
Your Petitioner is now confined at H. M. Prison, Stanley under a
death sentence passed on him on 26th June, 1974 for the murder of Sergeant 790
Cheung Tin Lam of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force at Peiho Street, Kowloon.
Your Fetitioner applied to the Full Court for leave to appeal against conviction,
but his application was dismissed on 2nd December 1974. He now begs to submit
this, his humble petition. to seek clemency from Your Excellency-in-Council and
prays that Your Excellency-in-Council will commute his death sentence to one of
imprisonment.
2.
Your Petitioner, now 23 years of age, was born in Hong Kong. He
has had 6 years of education and attained Primary 5 schooling when he had to give
it up partly because of family poverty and partly of his health. Ever since he
left school he has been engaged in honest occupations such as an apprentice in
doing painting work and air-conditioning maintenance and also as an angle-iron
worker. Your Petitioner has been suffering from kidney trouble for the past
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