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ANNEX A

10 XCR(75) 131

Borgode, una

Report to His Excellency the Governor in respect of Criminal Case No.35 of 1974, Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court

His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.

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Your Excellency,

Re: Li Tung-yau (19) garment worker

Tsui Kwok-kin (20)➡ police constable

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I have the honour to report, pursuant to Clause XXXIV

of the Royal Instructions, that on the 24th July 1974 the above

prisoners were convicted by the jury of the murder of one Kwok

Chun-kwan. The jury also returned a unanimous verdict of guilty

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of affray against each of the two prisoners. I have sentenced

the prisoners to death for the offence of murder but postponed

sentences for the offence of affray.

Four other youths, were tried together with the above

prisoners for murder. The jury found one not guilty and could

not agree on a verdict in respect of the other three.

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•UDY O

The incident arose out of a meeting between members

of two Triad Societies at a teashop in Yuen Long on the evening

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of the 13th November 1973. The deceased was the leading figure

of his party of about ten men. They were unarmed. Tsui Kwok-

kin and another person with the nickname of Bun Kai or Nun Kai

were the leading figures of the other party which comprised also

about ten men. Li Tung-yau was a member of Tsui Kwok-kin's party.

Some members of Tsui Kwok-kin's party carried weapons such as

sharpened water pipes, long knives, and iron bars. The meeting

was held for the purpose of settling an old dispute between Tsui

Kwok-kin and the deceased, but it ended in an affray, during LOTING

which the deceased was stabbed in the back three times with a

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