SOCIAL ENQUIRY ON
CONDEMNED PRISONER
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Sex
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Age : 28 years (Born on 19.9.1952, HKIC No. E573279) Native place : Canton, Kwangtung, Mainland China Religion
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The prisoner was born in Canton, Mainland China in 1952. He came from a middle income family as his father used to be a coxswain of river fuel boat earning a reasonably good income. However, with the large number of dependant family members, the family could only manage to lead a subsistence level of living. The prisoner's schooling was interrupted for two years by the Cultural Revolution and he thus became a school dropout at primary four. Thereafter, the prisoner accepted the arrangement of being sent to work in the farm in a newly developed commune between the years 1968 and 1971. The meagre income and hardship from farm work made the prisoner aspire for a better job opportunity and prospect and eventually led to his illegal immigration to Hong Kong in August 1971.
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At first the prisoner worked realistically in the first 2 years after he arrived at Hong Kong. Because of his low educational background and limited working experience, he could only take up manual labour job. He had working experience as a dyeing material company delivery hand, worker on board of a construction boat and cleaning worker at the Cross Harbour Tunnel Company. At that time, the prisoner still managed to send periodical remittance to his family in China and lived with two old friends from China in a rented room in Hung Hom. The prisoner was aware of his change in values and thinking after he was in close association with his former playmate from China, YUEN Yiu-hung, who later became the prisoner's best friend. He began
to think unrealistically of making easy money without having to work, just as his associates did. It inevitably led to the prisoner's involvement in a robbery at a ballroom together with his associates in the middle of 1973, which kept him in prison for 21⁄2 years until his release in May 1975.
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The prisoner managed to engage himself in employment after his discharge from prison. First he worked in construction sites and later followed an old friend to work in a dyeing factory. He also came to know his wife,
while he worked in her father's noodle shop. They then cohabited and later legally registered their marriage in 1977. A few months later, the prisoner resumed his association with YUEN who was released from prison at that time. · Nevertheless, in the following one odd year the prisoner was able to work steadily as a lorry delivery hand at the Shing Lee Transportation Company at Yaumati Fruit Market earning a few ten dollars per day until the incident of the present offence. Despite the fact that his employer had commented him to be a steady and responsible worker, and that his wife had confirmed that the prisoner was so far concerning and responsible for her living, the prisoner continued to associate with YUEN and some ex-inmates from prison, and joined them in mahjong games sometimes. Allegedly, the unsteady income from his job and his wife's weak health in pregnancy made the prisoner in want of money at
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