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1. The applicant is the widow of a sales manager who died from a serious head injury sustained while on a bus trip one evening after leaving his office. While boarding the bus, the deceased and one Mr. Mui had a dispute accusing each other of jumping the queue. The dispute resumed and got worse in the bus. At one stage the deceased grabbed the tie of Mr. Mui apparently to challenge or to intimidate him. Mr. Mui resisted and somehow managed to cause the deceased to release his tie. At that moment