Read the full judgment text of HCMP 004499/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 April 1997.
2. On 21st September 1995, three police officers went to a building in Hong Lok Street to investigate an allegation that a security guard there had been attacked. They went to the roof of the building. They found the deceased there. The evidence of the police officers as to what happened then can be summarised as follows. The deceased was abusive to them. He had a chopper with him and threatened to kill them with it. The police officers retreated. One of the police officers slipped, and the dece