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The 1st and the 2nd accused were then also arrested.

The 1st accused, in a voluntary statement to the police, described the killing as follows:

" I went with Ah Yuen (the 2nd accused) to Room

1175, Hong Kong Hotel. We went to rob. We planned it beforehand - me,

and Ah Ting (the 3rd accused), altogether three persons. Ah Ting said that a Middle East man might have money and he told me and

to go up and rob and then flee away

away with the money. There was a westerner in

Room 1175. We knocked and entered. I mean that we

opened the door to enter. The door was not locked. After we entered the room, we threatened him with knives. Then a struggle followed. I held him from

behind.

was in front of the westerner.

stabbed the westerner in the

Subsequently

and I

front. I held the knife against the westerner's neck. Then I let him lie on the floor. Then

dragged him to the toilet. I searched the westerner's

trouser pockets and obtained from there four hundred US dollars and about one hundred odd Hong Kong dollars."

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So far as the murder charge is concerned, the only evidence against the Petitioner was his own cautioned statement, the relevant part of which reads as follows:-

"Q.

When did you meet at your home the next day to discuss the robbing of Mr. Tey four?

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