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The father of the Prisoner became very sick after the Prisoner was arrested for the offence. It was learnt that he was mentally upset and was unable to manage his business of hawking. He appeared to get indulged into drinking Chinese wine. The present fish-stall was being managed by his mother with the casual help of some friends of the family. Their business was said to be only fair because local residents liked to do shopping elsewhere.
There was in general no common conclusion as to the cause of
his offence.
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FAMILY COMPOSITION
Father KWOK Choon-fun, 52, not at work due to mental disorder, casually
helping his wife in fish-hawking at present.
Mother: CHAN Yuet-kam, 48, hawking fish at No. 11 stall, Jordan Valley Estate, gross income varied from $400-$600 per day at the time when this report was written.
Younger brother: KWOK Ki-wing, 18, a garment factory worker with $18 p.d.
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
The Prisoner and his family were once residents of the Tung Tau squatter area. Their hut was destroyed by fire in 1960 and the family (including their uncle and grandmother) were allocated two units in the Jordan Valley Resettlement Estate. The Prisoner was mostly in the care of his uncle because he could not get along very well with his father. He used to share the upper part of a double-bunk with his uncle. The two families in fact lived in two neighbouring blocks for which they paid a total monthly rent of $50.
In general, the home environment was predominantly working-class, with easy access to entertainment and social service facilities. The Prisoner was a familiar face to workers of a Kai Fong Association Social Centre which was just on the ground floor of his block. A small patch of sandy ground on one side of the block was the meeting place of the Prisoner and his young friends of the neighbourhood.
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ASSOCIATES
The Prisoner was not without friends of good and respectable characters whom he had come to know in the neighbourhood or in factories where he worked. They included persons of both sexes and different ages, most of them being factory employees and fish-mongers. A few were of advanced age, however, and were particularly keen to play Chinese chess with him as he was a good player. The Prisoner was sometimes seen ̈
playing football near his house with young people living in the Jordan Valley neighbourhood. He was also a familiar face in the Jordan Valley Kaifong Association Social Centre but he was not a registered member.
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On the other hand, he disclosed that he had gone along with associates who were from triad societies. He had found it very difficult to get rid of them because he was living quite close with them. admitted that he did join gang-fights occasionally because he was asked by their leaders.
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