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return to the room with the razor he handed it over to

and it was

then that he saw blood on his aunt's neck. He became frightened as he

knew or believed her to be dead.

then asked for the money back

which he returned and was given in its stead two gold chains. He said he

then left the premises leaving

behind.

It was inherent in his story that

(a)

he never cut anyone's throat;

(b)

he was away getting the razor when

his aunt, and

dealt the fatal blow to

(c)

that when he left the premises the amah was still alive in the next

room and must have been killed by

He did not give evidence and so he could not be asked how he anticipated

getting away with the robbery. It must have been highly convenient for

him that the amah was killed. None of her blood was found on the chopper.

There were numerous bloodstains on the chopper of the same grouping as that

of the aunt. The pathologist said the absence of any of the amah's blood on

the chopper could be explained if the amah had first been killed. Any

traces of her blood on the chopper could reasonably have been washed away

by the blood on the infliction of the injury to the aunt.

15.

that

The chopper was found hidden in the aunt's room. It seemed highly unlikely

had he killed the amah after killing the aunt, would have

returned to the aunt's room merely to hide the chopper. Furthermore it

seemed highly unlikely that the amah, who, according to the pathologist

had at some stage offered resistance to her assailant, would have remained

inert on the bed when her legs were not tied unless of course she had been

killed prior to the aunt.