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According to the evidence of the pathologist,
either knife recovered at the rear staircase could have produced those wounds.
BACKGROUND
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On the 5th July 1979 the Identification Bureau
established that a palm-print which had been lifted from one of the knives found on the rear staircase of the hotel
corresponded to the right palm of the 1st accused, a recorded
criminal. Further police enquiries revealed that the 2nd accused, a Vietnamese-Chinese, might be involved. The police also suspected that the Petitioner was a party to the scheme since
he had an experience of business dealings with the deceased.
Visits to their normal places of residence failed to contact them, for they had gone to ground on learning of the police enquiries.
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Taiwan.
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On 4th September 1979, the Petitioner returned from
He was stopped at Kai Tak Airport and later brought to the Homicide Bureau where he made a full confession as to his previous knowledge of the deceased and his involvement in the planning of the robbery. He further admitted that he knew it was the 1st and the 2nd accused who physically carried out the robbery and that they were carrying knives. The ve police also recovered from the Petitioner 4 electronic watches, 3 of which were later identified by a salesman as being part of watch samples which he had left with the deceased in his room in the Hong Kong Hotel on 24th June 1979.
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