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In the afternoon or evening of that day, Sergeant YIP Yin and Detective Constable 7027 CHENG Kai-ming(), together with LEUNG Wing-sang, CHAN Loi-fat, LAW Ming-tak and SZETO Wah went to LEUNG's home and met LEUNG's parents. YIP Yin told LEUNG's parents that their son had been arrested for a minor offence of wounding or affray and would at the most be sent to prison for two years only. LEUNG's mother was either given the whole of the $10,000 that day or a part of it on that occasion and the balance on the following day. LUNG's parents were not told of
the agreement reached at the Harbour Hotel and they probably did not know of it until much later. LAW Ming- tak also told LEUNG's parents he would continue to give them LEUNG's wages and take care of them, which he in fact did, up to the time of his own arrest and imprisonment.
On the 1st August, 1973, LEUNG Wing-sang was charged with six counts of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, to which he simply signified that he understood.
On the 7th August, 1973, having obtained instructions from the Legal Department, the Police charged LEUNG Wing-sang with the murder of LAU Wah, to which he said, "I under-
stand.. Reserved."
From the time that LEUNG Wing-sang was charged with murder to the hearing of his appeal, LAW Ming-tak and LAU Cheong- wah at one stage or another assured LEUNG and his parents that the charge of murder was but a matter of routine procedure (134) and that the chances of an acquittal on that charge were good. ILUNG and his parents, being ignorant, believed LAW and LAU.
It is clear from the evidence that when LAU Cheong-wah told LEUNG Wing-sang he would be charged with wounding or affray only, he was not deliberately telling a
falsehood. The circumstances of LAU Wah's death were such that a layman would almost certainly think that no murder had been committed. Two aspects of law are
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