TNAG-0555-FCO40-650-Review-of-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1975 — Page 128

SOCIAL ENQUIRY on

CONDEMNED PRISONER

: KWOK Ki-cheong

Name

Sex

: Male.

Religion

: Nil.

Age

Native Place

Next of Kin

: 25 (claimed to be born in Mainland China in December, 1950)

: Chiu Chow.

: Father (KWOK Chung-poon, residing at Room 407, Block 11,

Jordan Valley Estate, Kowloon.)

A. GENERAL INFORMATION

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The Prisoner came from a small family with both parents and a younger brother. They had close link with their uncle and grandmother who lived in a neighbouring block of building. The Prisoner was in fact living in the latter family at Room 328, Block 10, Jordan Valley Estate, Kowloon because he was not on very good terms with his father and he loved the company of his aged grandmother who naturally had spoilt him since his childhood. His mother was also lenient towards him and had not exercised her authority to remedy the situation.

The Prisoner used to be a factory worker, working in all sorts of factories as a casual hand or apprentice. He only helped his parents in hawking fish when he was tired of his job like what he did just before he was charged with Murder. During his unemployment he was given about

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$500 per month by his mother as allowance. Even when he was working for his parents he had too much liberty.

The Prisoner had a record of supervision with the Probation Service, Social Welfare Department in 1968. He was placed on probation supervision for eighteen months in respect of a) Conspiracy to rob and b) Possession of Instrument fit for Unlawful Purpose and his probation order expired satisfactorily in October, 1969. According to the record, the Prisoner had reported regularly to the supervising officer, occasionally with his mother, throughout the period of supervision. He was also observed to work reasonably steadily in cloth weaving factories. The question of his conflict with the father did not arise in recent years as the Prisoner was residing most of the time in his uncle's house. Prisoner alleged at the present inquiries that he had changed a lot under the supervision of a probation officer but maintained that he could not possibly shake away all former triad society associates as many of them lived virtually "next-door" to him. His delinquent ties apparently revived shortly when the supervision period was over.

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The Prisoner also said that he was not the sort of person seeking fight with others. Besides those trouble-making youngsters, he made friends with people holding lawful occupations. The Kai Fong Association Social Centre was one of the places he often went for a game of Chinese chess, table tennis and other entertainment. He only went out with triad society friends occasionally and when he felt he could not resist their pressure, He sometimes sought to get away from the company of trouble- makers by visiting one of his girl-friends living in the New Territories and staying there over the week-end.

/ The father