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took part in it claiming that he was frightened and went off and

took refuge in a car and subsequently his two colleagues turned up at the car covered in blood. He then went to one of his temporary

homes, which was the same address as that occupied by the 1st

defendant. During the investigation of this case, blood was found

on the 2nd defendant's shoes which according to the expert evidence

was consistent with the blood of the deceased and 3% of the ethnic

Chinese population in Hong Kong, but inconsistent with the 2nd

defendant's own blood or the blood of the 1st defendant or

There was also in evidence a statement which contained a complete

confession by the 2nd defendant to the murder of the deceased by

way of execution. Subsequently he led the police to the spot where

the killing had taken place and pointed out a boulder to the police.

The 2nd defendant's explanation for being at the Ngau Tau Kok flat,

that he knew

H

who was a drug addict, and who needed to have

an eye kept on him for that reason, was quite ridiculous and rightly rejected by the jury. In the course of his evidence however, he

did concede seeing a knife in the flat which was consistent with

the scout knife found by the police in dense undergrowth off the

Castle Peak Road.

The 2nd defendant's explanation as to what happened when

the party left the Ngau Tau Kok flat in the company of the deceased

was equally unbelievable. He maintained that the dispute between

Ah Woon and the deceased had been settled by this time and that he

was merely asked to go along with the deceased to help carry the

valuables in the event that the cash at the deceased house was not

enough to make repayment of the $16,500 which the deceased had

admitted owing. He claimed that the deceased was taken by the 3

men including the 2nd defendant himself in a car to a street near

Mong Kok Police Station on Prince Edward Road where he thought that

they turned into another street. He claimed that the deceased was

allowed to leave the car at this stage and go up to collect money.

20 minutes later the deceased returned to the car saying that he did

not have enough money but that he had just rung up from his home

a friend and the friend had cash to lend him and that the deceased