A.
Ah Sha again said that they were to
be used in an emergency."
After that Your Petitioner went on to give details of
discussions about how the money was to be divided up.
9.
THAT, on this evidence, the relevant
passages in the summing up of the learned trial judge
Dealing with the law he said:-
are as follows:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
"The burden of proving these two
serious charges against these three men is firmly on the Crown, and in relation to each one of them and on each of the two charges you have got to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of their guilt of murder of Ghaleb Teyfour on the afternoon of the 27th June of last year in Room 1175 in the Hong Kong Hotel, and of robbing him
"You will have to consider whether
these confessions are true confessions or untrue, or partly true and partly untrue, bearing in mind the conclusions that you come to as to the circumst- ances in which they were made. They were not written by the accused, but they were signed by the accused at a number of different places. You will give them the weight you think that they merit."
"Of course, if they are disregarded, there is not very much left of the Crown case, against the 2nd and 3rd accused particularly, so a great deal of your consideration will be taken up with the statements no doubt."
"You have a very important duty to
perform here, a duty to the accused and to the public, a duty to the accused that they should have a fair trial, thorough consideration of what they have said to assess its truth, duty to the public that if the evidence leads clearly to a verdict of guilty, that verdict should be
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