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His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong

Government House,

Hong Kong.

!

ANNEX A

Supreme Court, Battery Path, Hong Kong.

25th March, 1982

Your Excellency,

Criminal Case No. 42 of 1981 Regina v.

and

In accordance with Clause XXXIV of the Royal Instructions

alias Ah Yau and

I report upon the case of

alias Ah Lung who were convicted by a jury on the 24th

April 1981 and sentenced by me to death for the murder of a Chinese

man WONG Chun-leung on the 19th October 1979.

This case was a retrial. The two prisoners had originally been tried in Criminal Sessions Case No. 21 of 1980 before a jury

and been convicted and sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal in

Criminal Appeal No. 512/80 allowed the appeal, because of a single

sentence in the learned judge's summing up. They nevertheless

considered it to be a strong case and ordered a retrial.

:

In my summing up to the jury I was careful to omit the

sentence from the previous summing up which had been criticized by

the Court of Appeal. I also dealt with the evidence at greater

length than in the previous summing up.

I agree with the verdicts of the jury convicting these

two young men of murder.

On the 15th October 1979, evidence had been given that a

sum of $18,000 had been handed over by a man called

to

another man called

who was the middleman in a drug deal.

ave evidence that he was supposed to pay the supplier of

the drugs, that is the deceased on delivery of the drugs. However,

he kept $1,500 as his own commission and handed over $16,500 to the

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