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1. The Appellant killed his young daughter in gruesome circumstances. Upon his trial for murder he pleaded diminished responsibility but it is clear that the jury did not find him to be suffering from that type of abnormality of mind contemplated by section 3 of the Homicide Ordinance Cap. 339 for they returned a verdict of murder. Miss Tam, who represented the Appellant before this Court but did not represent him at his trial, put forward one single ground of appeal which was to the effect that