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His body was discovered at the hillside on the 22nd October where it had apparently rolled down the hillside onto the road, and at this time it had in excess of 30 stab wounds, two of which were fatal and a number of cut wounds, one of which resulted in the deceased being practically beheaded, his head only remain attached

to the body by the vertebrae.

So far as the 1st defendant was concerned, it was common ground that he was involved from the 16th October up until the 19th October 1979, but there was a dispute about the degree of involvement. It was the 1st defendant's case that he was merely approached on the 16th October to give advice to

and that

he was again approached on the 17th October also to give advice. It was his evidence that he was approached on the 18th October to

give a character reference for

appears to be common ground that

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because by that time it

had delivered à message from

the deceased to the effect that the deceased was going to have Ah Woon beaten up on the basis that it was he who had been swindled by

It was the 1st defendant's contention that

wanted

him to give a character reference to the deceased to explain what a

good fellow

was and how he would not have swindled the

deceased. It was the 1st defendant's evidence that he was called in also on the 19th for the same purpose because the deceased had not been located on the 18th.

The 1st defendant was clearly lying about his degree of involvement in this matter. The jury obviously accepted evidence that the 1st defendant's involvement was much greater than

he would have the court believe. He came into the picture on the 16th immediately after the swindle. He was very interested and concerned in the whole matter on the 17th October taking part in

an operation whereby

was taken to a hillside and beaten up to make him divulge the whereabouts of the deceased.

As a result

to

of information gained from this operation he went with the Wong Do Ballroom in Kowloon in order to look for the deceased. A search which proved to be unsuccessful. He was again at Ngau Tau Kok flat on the 18th October 1979 sometime after 3 p.m.

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