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His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong

ANNEX A

Courts of Justice

Hong Kong

14th January, 1982

Your Excellency,

Criminal Case No. 84 of 1981.

Regina V.

In accordance with Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instruction I report

upon the case of

convicted by a jury on Friday 28th day

of August 1981 and sentenced by me to death for the murder on 28th

a female, aged about 17 years.

January 1981 of

BACKGROUND

From about May 1980 the convict shared a hut numbered 9 Tung

Village, near Tsz Wan Shan Estate, New Kowloon with the deceased

and her brother

aged 25 years.

This hut had been

purchased by all three in May 1980 for $5,500. The share for

deceased and her brother being $3,500 : On 28th January 1980

saved a balance of $1,500 in respect of his and deceased

share to convict who had advanced that sum in payments.

All three were born in Mainland China.

The convict came to Hong

Kong in October 1978.

came to Hong Kong in 1979

and was followed by his sister, the deceased, sometime later in 1979.

The convict is a cousin of

all three are Hakkas.

and the deceased, and

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