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1. On the 27th June, 1974, the respondent had 4 ½ months more to serve of a sentence of 30 months passed on him for the offence of wounding. On that date, he, together with others, escaped from the Chatham Road Centre, Kowloon. He was arrested in early March 1975 for a second offence of wounding. To that offence he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment consecutive to the sentence that he was already serving. Before another magistrate he pleaded guilty to the offence of esc