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correctly concluded that he had been cheated.

with the assistance

At about 3 p.m. on 19th October 1979

of an associate, took the deceased to a flat in Ngau Tau Kok which

was leased to

Here the deceased was interrogated and

and his accomplices. The petitioner and

assaulted by

TSUI Shing-yau were present. At about 10 p.m. the deceased was

flat by a group of males including the

This was the last time that the

taken from

petitioner and

deceased was seen alive by prosecution witnesses.

5.

The petitioner made four cautioned statements to the police.

made seven. Both convicts admitted that the deceased

was taken to a spot near Cheung Hang Village. TSUI eventually admitted being present at the murder, stating that the petitioner

and another Chinese male killed the deceased with knives. On

7th November 1979 TSUI took police officers to the Castle Peak

Road area where a knife was recovered.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE

6.

The Pathologiest, Dr. P. Y. Lam found over thirty stab wounds on the deceased's body, including stab wounds of the

right lung and liver and a deep gaping cut wound to the neck,

any of which was capable of being fatal.

BACKGROUND

7.

It was the Crown's case that the deceased was murdered

by the petitioner and

who were acting as executioners for attempting to cheat fellow drug traffickers.

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