His Excellency,
The Governor of Hong Kong,
Government House,
Hong Kong.
Your Excellency,
Supreme Court Hong Kong.
4th June 1981
A
Criminal Case No. 82 of 1990 Regina v
(aged 25)
In accordance with Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instructions, I report
a male now aged 25 years who was convicted by
upon the case of
a jury on the 16th day of December 1980 for the murder of YEUNG Pul-chung on
the night of 25th January 1980, and sentenced to death by me.
The accused and the deceased were living in the same area some
time around December 1979 but on the 9th day of January 1980 the accused sold
his own hut in Yuen Dao Ngam Village, Chai Wan. Through the introduction of a
mutual friend he moved into the deceased's hut and lived there with him until the
25th of January 1980, the night when the deceased died. That same evening, that
is, prior to his death, the deceased went to see a
at her
home at 638 Block 6, Chai Wan Estate, Hong Kong, in order to make arrangements
with her to take some money and some cigarettes to his relatives in Mainland China.
He also gave her a set of keys to the locks of his hut and after dinner there,
in which another person called TSE Leung-diu was present, he left her premises.
He had also made an appointment to see her the following morning at a tea-house
at 9 a.m.
It is apparent from evidence adduced at the trial that the deceased
went home almost immediately after he left
kept
the appointment but as the deceased did not turn up, she telephoned him at his
home but upon receiving no reply she went to the deceased's hut with
With the set of keys in her possession she tried to open the locks on the main
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