fight but it did not involve him. The driver with considerable presence
of mind told them there was a police road block ahead whereupon they
immediately told him to turn left. He did so and arrived at a cul de
sac where the three persons left his taxi. The driver informed a
policeman who went to the cul de sac where the three persons were then
walking. He called upon the three persons to stop. The one with the
knife ran and escaped but the other two stopped. One of them was
MA Sung-lee who was taken into custody.
who ran but was caught after a chase by other police officers.
✓ ' .
The other was KWOK Ki-cheong
MA Sung-lee who said he is aged 23 years gave evidence
denying he had taken part in the attack or been in a taxi. He said
he himself had been attacked close to Yue Man Square when on his way
to a cinema. He said he had been running from his attackers when he
was called upon to halt by a police officer. He said he was apprehended
at a place a considerable distance away from where the prosecution
witnesses alleged. The jury, rightly in my view, disbelieved him,
accepted the prosecution evidence and concluded that he had been one
of the attackers in the lane.
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KWOK Ki-cheong who said he is aged 24 years gave evidence of
an alibi and called a witness to support him. The jury, in my view
quite rightly disbelieved both the accused and his witness, accepted
the prosecution evidence and concluded he was a member of the attacking
party in the lane.
FONG Chong-ming and NG Lee-kin were identified by various
victims as having been in the lane taking part in the attack.
Each was
identified as having been seen running through the lane with a white
cloth in his mouth and a knife in his hand, chopping people. Some of
the identifying witnesses knew the accused prior to the attack, other
identifying witnesses did not know them previously. The statements
made by the witnesses to the police shortly after the attack were
frequently not in accord with the evidence given by the witnesses in Court.
These discrepancies in large part consisted of failure to mention in
the statements accused persons known to the witnesses by name, but
whom they later identified as attackers. Various explanations were
put forward for these inconsistencies, including language difficulties
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