Social Enquiry on
Condemned Prisoner
Name: CHAN Po-kong alias YIP Po-kong and WCNG Chi-kong
(according to Birth Certificate)
Gex: Male
nge : 27 years 11 months
(3orn on 20.11.1952 as verified by Hong Kon Certificate No. 7118 SPO)
Native Place: nok Shan, Kwangtung, China.
Birth
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Religion: Mil
(A) General Information
The Prisoner's late father was actually surnamed VIP but for the convenience of obtaining a driving licence in lony, kong, a urmese driving licence registered under the name CH Chuen was used after he came to Hong Kong in the 1950's. All his legal documents henceforth bore the surname CHAN and the father was also known as Ch.d. Chuen to the Kowloon Motor Bus Company in which he had worked as a bus driver.
Life
The Frisoner was the second of his parents' three children. was hard in his childhood because the late father was the sole breadwinner of the family. Although the situation improved after the family was resettled from a squatter nut to the Li Cheng lik state, in 1959, the father died of nose cancer after prolonged illness for three years. The Prisoner's mother then attempted to work outside but still there were much In order to financial hardships because the children were all very young. relieve herself of the heavy financial burden and hoping to find the children another father, she co-habited with Mr. CHUNG Sik-chiu in 1960. Mr. CHUNG subsequently moved into the small cubicle of the Prisoner's family and by his union with the Prisoner's mother, three sons were born in the following years. with a step-father in the family, the Prisoner was said to feel very unhappy at home.
The rrisoner had taken up several jobs after dropping out of school of his own accord due to poor results when he reached i. 4 standard. At the age of thirteen, he became a member of the Shing wor triad society in Li Cheng Uk area and had allegedly taken part in most of the gang fights and illegal triad activities. At first, the Frisoner was a garage apprentice but left the job when he damaged a car by illegally driving it in the garage.
On and off, he changed to work with his step-father at construction sites. Being a rolling stone, he could not settle in any one job and had taken up factory work casually later on. During those three years, he also played guitar in various nightclubs by joining different pop groups. For almost one and a half years prior to his committing the present offence, he claimed to have worked as a sales representative in a certain Fak Lee Trading Company in riongkok dealing in household electrical appliances with an average income of about 1,000 to $2,000 per month. liowever, this company had subsequently moved away and could not be located for verification purpose. #hile he had not worked steadily, the Frisoner had, since the age of seventeen, taken the liberty to live away from home with the excuse that his home environment was too congested. The last address at Block A, 13th Floor, 444 Hathan Road where the Prisoner had shared a room with a
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