Hong Kong Movie: At the beginning, Big Boss B asked me to draw the death lottery

Chapter 149 Stick fighting is also a form of fighting; please beat the two officers into hand-beaten beef balls!
If we don't make these foreigners pay a bloody price, they'll think we're all kind and easy to bully.

The more the British Hong Kong government tried to quell the situation, the more he wanted to escalate it!
In any case, the two sides have completely broken off relations, resorting to all sorts of underhanded tricks, both overt and covert, including legal and murder cases.

At this point, anyone who still has any concerns or hopes for any room for maneuver is a complete fool!
……

4 p.m., 38 Queensway.

As the judge entered, everyone stood up.

As the clerk began reading the charges, David, standing in the dock, kept glancing at the plaintiff's lawyer.

The prosecutor was an unknown, insignificant figure.

This made David secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

The prosecutor glanced at him only once before launching his own prosecution.

"Defendant David Jordan, I, on behalf of Mr. Jiang Tianyang, raise questions for you."

During your tenure as head of the Hong Kong Island Special Branch, you repeatedly abused your power to frame and murder council members of various civic organizations on Hong Kong Island.

They conspired with Hysan Development, a well-known real estate company in Hong Kong Island, to frame Ho Yiu-chung, a shareholder of Heng Yiu Properties, by accusing him of engaging in triad-related organized crime activities.

Do you admit to the accusations I have made?

David sneered and replied coldly, "That's completely untrue!"

"Alright, now I'll bring another murder case against you."

On the afternoon of July 16th, at around 5 pm, you and others bribed a gunman to launch a premeditated murder against my client, Chiang Tin-yeung's, brother, Chiang Tin-sang, at the Triangle Pier in Sai Wan!

Then they framed He Yaozong, a shareholder of Hengyao Real Estate, for this. Do you admit it or not?

These words immediately caused an uproar in the courtroom.

The judge handling the case immediately spoke up.

"Silence! Prosecutor, please do not bring up matters unrelated to the case being heard in this court!"

Faced with the judge's blatant control of the proceedings, Jiang Tianyang, sitting in the plaintiff's seat, couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

He gave his lawyer a wink, and the lawyer understood.

"Your Honor, I request that the witnesses be summoned to the court immediately!"

As Fatty Li was brought in by the bailiffs, David's eyelids twitched slightly.

His gaze toward Fat Lai was full of warning, forcing the defense lawyer standing next to the defendant's dock to speak up in response.

“Mr. David, please watch your words and actions. There are so many reporters here.”

"Don't say a word for me; I will defend you the entire time."

Fat Li didn't dare to look David in the eye, so he stood in the witness stand and recounted the whole story in court.

This time he was truly honest, and his words and actions caused a stir in the courtroom.

"quiet!"

The judge had to regain control of the proceedings, and then he looked at the defense lawyer.

"Defense attorney, do you have any rebuttal to the accusations made by the witnesses?"

"Have!"

David's defense lawyer is on par with Chen Tianyi, and is also a senior barrister in the Bar Association.

He glanced at Fatty Li and began his seduction.

“Mr. Lai Chi-yin, I consulted my client beforehand regarding your accusations against Mr. David.”

As is widely known, Mr. David is the head of the Special Branch, and his job is to maintain the security environment of Hong Kong Island.

According to my understanding, Mr. David contacted you in mid-July, using your status as a member of the triad to investigate a drug smuggling case involving the Triangle Pier in Sai Wan.

In fact, Triangle Wharf has always been within the sphere of influence of the Hung Hing Society. We also know that Chiang Tin-sang, the head of your Hung Hing Society, is a law-abiding businessman.

He dislikes seeing anyone engaging in drug smuggling in his business district.

Ultimately, this angered Chen Tianxiong and his gang of drug dealers, leading to retaliation from their drug smuggling group. Is that right?!

Fatty Li was dumbfounded for a moment.

Is this how lawyers defend their clients?

Anyway, Raven has already fled to the Netherlands, and the gunman was also sent by Raven.

Since the recording cannot be used as evidence in court, and based on the principle of presumption of innocence under Hong Kong Island law, if this case is retried, David might not even face any charges.

What's even more ingenious about this lawyer is that, in his previous remarks, he also managed to distance Fatty Li from the situation, portraying him as an informant cooperating with the police operation.

If the case is concluded, Fat Lai will not have to bear any responsibility.

All the blame should be borne by the crow that fled to the Netherlands!

This made Fatty Li's thoughts start to stir again.

He glanced at Jiang Tianyang and found that Jiang Tianyang's eyes were sharp and he was also staring at him.

Fatty Li shuddered for a moment. Just as he was thinking about how to start the conversation, the defense lawyer spoke up again.

“Mr. Lai Chi-yin, if there is anything you are unable to answer, then I will continue to defend you.”

In fact, according to the confessions of the two gunmen transferred by Mr. Jiang Tianyang, there is no evidence to prove that they were assigned by the Political Department to shoot Jiang Tiansheng at the Triangle Wharf.

I might conclude that these were fabricated statements made by the two gunmen in a moment of crisis in an attempt to avoid retaliation from the victim's family.

Therefore, I would like to urge Your Honor and all members of the jury to make a careful decision, for the court is a place where evidence is paramount!

After the defense attorney finished speaking, he gave the prosecution almost no time to relent.

He cleared his throat and looked at Fatty Li.

"Mr. Li, as the accuser, I hope you will not let some misleading statements affect your judgment."

Tell me, tell me, did my client personally tell you that he was the one who asked Chen Tianxiong's gang to hire a gunman to assassinate Jiang Tiansheng?

The defense attorney's reminder was clear enough.

He emphasized the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" with particular clarity.

Fat Li wasn't stupid, and he immediately gave a vague reply.

“I… Mr. David doesn’t seem to have mentioned these things to me in person.”

I learned of this from his phone call.

"Then it becomes clear that sixty years ago, the communication technology at the time was sufficient to forge a targeted tone."

A single phone call is tantamount to accusing my client of premeditated murder. I would like to ask the jury members, isn't this a bit too hasty?

A professional lawyer is adept at seizing upon subtle flaws and turning the tide in court!

This was the case when Chen Tianyi defended Zhang Shih-hao and He Yao-chung, and it's even more so now with the lawyer defending David.

The judge, seated on the bench, looked at the prosecution lawyer.

"Prosecutor, do you have anything to refute regarding the defense's arguments?"

Jiang Tianyang's face darkened. Fatty Li's ambiguous answer had completely enraged him.

He then gave the prosecution lawyer a wink, and the lawyer immediately looked at the judge.

"Yes! Your Honor, if you had looked closely at my complaint, you would have noticed that I have more than one murder charge against David Jordan."

I also want to accuse David Jordan of premeditatedly murdering He Yaozong, a shareholder of Hengyao Real Estate!

As he spoke, the lawyer carefully picked up a gun wrapped in a transparent plastic bag.

"A targeted murder occurred at Kwong Wah Hospital at around 2 a.m. today."

Someone found this gun with Lai Chi-yin's fingerprints at the scene, and I request the court to examine this piece of evidence in court!
Mr. Li, the defense lawyer just said that the phone recording cannot be used as evidence in court, but I still want to make public the phone recording of you last night in court!
Justice resides in the hearts of the people. Whether the recording is genuine or not, our friends in the media and members of the jury, you will have your own judgment!

As Fatty Li's face turned even more grim than if his mother had died, David's expression completely relaxed.

It seems that leaving anything to a well-trained dog is always the most worry-free and effortless thing to do.

He could roughly deduce that he was simply forced to resign and leave Hong Kong Island due to public pressure.

Subsequently, with the court verifying the evidence and the recording being leaked, after a half-hour back-and-forth between the prosecution and the defense, the jury finally finished deliberating around 5 p.m.

The verdict was predetermined. David and two police superintendents from the Special Branch were, unsurprisingly, sentenced to deportation from Hong Kong Island and return to Britain for duty.

But unexpectedly, Fat Lai, who appeared as a witness, was once again treated as a pawn and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole by the judge for murder!
As the judge's gavel fell, a predetermined farce came to an end.

When David was led away by bailiffs, he left through the back door of the courthouse to avoid excessive public outcry.

At this moment, an unprecedented sense of ease appeared on his face.

“Mr. Andrei, we have done our best. Now I have the face to go back and face the Queen!”

I hope that the next person to take over in the Political Department will be able to carry on our cause with unwavering dedication.

After leaving the courthouse, David immediately accompanied his two subordinates to the Mercedes that had come to pick them up.

Sitting in the back seat of the car, David took out his plane ticket and said to his companion Andrei with a sigh of relief.

My colleague Andrei slumped back in his chair, his eyes half-closed, and remained silent.

The car, carrying the two people, headed towards Kai Tak Airport.

Kai Tak Airport is just a stone's throw away from the soon-to-be-demolished Walled City.

David was unaware that a large crowd of residents, poised to board, had already gathered around the airport tunnel outside Kowloon Walled City. At approximately 5:35 PM, there were less than forty minutes left before David's boarding time.

The Mercedes carrying David had already entered Songhuangtai Road.

David couldn't help but roll down the car window and call out to the driver.

"Friend, please slow down!"
I'm afraid I'll never have the chance to return to Hong Kong Island again. I want to take a few more glimpses of this place we've fought for for five years.

"Good sir!"

bang-

The driver had just slowed down when he heard a muffled thud from the right-hand window.

Looking around, I noticed a group of agitated citizens suddenly appearing on one side of the road.

In an instant, bricks and stones rained down on the vehicle like a storm.

This was not an armored vehicle, and the surrounding glass shattered immediately.

David was horrified and immediately urged the driver to drive away from the scene.

He had a premonition of what was to come, and there was no doubt that if he stayed here, these enraged inhabitants of the walled city would tear him and his colleagues to shreds!

"Mr. David, the tires have been punctured!"

The driver, huddled helplessly in the driver's seat, responded in this way.

Soon, David and his group discovered that hundreds of villagers, armed with long and short wooden sticks, had run over and surrounded the car, which had been smashed to pieces.

"Damn it, it's these foreigners!"

"You've done the dirty work and now you want to just walk away? What a joke!"

"I'm just a worthless life. Let me go to jail if I have to. I'll ask you all to take good care of my old mother. I'm going to wipe out these white bastards today!"

"The law doesn't punish everyone. Let's all go together. If all we can do is let the cops arrest us and put us all in jail!"

"What kind of bullshit law is this? My ancestors participated in the Boxer Rebellion in Tianjin."

He killed so many foreigners back then, why can't I kill them?

……

Hearing the shouts and curses coming from all directions, David's face was filled with extreme horror.

Before he could react, the enraged residents of the walled city had already surrounded him and worked together to overturn the Mercedes.

Then someone reached in through the shattered car window to open the car door.

The driver, clutching his head, huddled in the overturned cab, hurriedly begging for mercy from a group of villagers.

"Neighbors, this has nothing to do with me!"
I also come from a public housing estate; I'm just a driver!

No one paid him any attention; the group of irritable walled city residents had a very clear objective.

After opening the car door, they pulled David and Andrei out.

"Fuck! Fuck! Do you guys have no respect for the law?"

Even as Andrei was dragged out, he continued to shout loudly, despite the fact that the residents of the walled city were completely out of control.

He was greeted by a flurry of flying sticks, and Andrei was knocked unconscious in less than two seconds.

But an enraged crowd still managed to squeeze in from outside, determined to give these foreigners a good beating.

The driver, huddled inside the car, felt a chill run down his spine. Judging by the current situation, it wouldn't be long before Andrei was beaten into a "Chaozhou hand-beaten beef ball" by this mob!
David, who had just been exposed, was equally terrified.

However, unlike Andrei's stubbornness before his death, he chose to close his eyes tightly and repeatedly make the sign of the cross with both hands towards his chest.

He kept repeating "Amen" in prayer, asking for God's protection.

Unfortunately, his God did not protect him.

The sound of his skull cracking was the last sound David ever heard in his life.

……

When members of the nearby mobile unit arrived after receiving the report, two corpses that could only be described as 'minced meat' were already lying on the side of the road.

Several hundred residents of the fortified village remained seated by the roadside, their eyes gleaming with menacing intent as they stared at the mobile unit members who were about to come and question them.

For a moment, the members of the mobile unit dared not move forward, and some had already taken out walkie-talkies and started calling for support.

"What are you looking at? It was your godfather who did it!"

Arrest me if you must!"

The moment the walkie-talkie was picked up, a hothead jumped out with a wooden stick and yelled at the PTU team.

"You son of a bitch, I'm the one who killed him, arrest me if you want!"
I traded my life for two foreigners, that's more than enough!

"Arrest me!"

"I did it!"

……

The crowd stirred again, startling the mobile unit members who retreated repeatedly.

When the entire West Kowloon task force was mobilized to reinforce the area, they were at a loss for what to do when faced with nearly a thousand citizens who confessed to murder.

We can't just arrest all of them and take them back, can we?
Who has the guts to issue an order to arrest someone?

This is already a highly sensitive case. If the police take away all the residents of the Walled City for the first time, who will dare to step forward and take responsibility?

The Hong Kong British government didn't want order, but the British side still wanted to save face!
Thus, this case, which had garnered significant public attention, ended in an even more tragic manner.

……

It was a little past 6:10 PM in the villa area halfway up Bijia Mountain.

Li Wenbin personally drove to the entrance of He Yaozong's villa.

After explaining their purpose, a short while later, someone came out and led Li Wenbin into the reception room on the second floor of Villa A.

He Yaozong had been waiting on the sofa for a long time.

"Officer Lee, would you like some tea?"

"not in the mood!"

"That's fine, I wasn't in the mood anyway, since I didn't prepare anything for you!"

He Yaozong smiled and then invited Li Wenbin to sit down.

He spoke again: "I have fully cooperated with your Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, and all the stalls in Luen Shing have behaved themselves."

When are you planning to release us and so many others from Luen Shing, the police force that has detained us?

"Surely I'm not supposed to go and pay bail to each of them individually?"

Li Wenbin suppressed his anger and spoke.

"We need to wait for the police department's notification regarding when the people will be released."

"Ho Yiu-chung, do you know what crime you'd be charged with for killing the head of the Political Department?"

"It's nothing more than life imprisonment. Wasn't the death penalty for ringing heads in Hong Kong abolished a long time ago?"

"Then do you know what crime it is to instigate the residents of the walled city to kill the head of the political department?"

He Yao suppressed his smile and looked coldly at Li Wenbin.

"I don't know if you attended the hearing of the Political Department's case on Queensway this afternoon."

All I know is that some people in court assert that without evidence, anyone is innocent!
I was so happy when those two foreigners got beaten to death!
But whether they live or die is none of my business!

Li Wenbin's voice was equally chilling.

"So, you're planning to use this method to deal with the police from now on?"

"In what way?"

"You know perfectly well what method you're going to use!"

Ho Yiu-chung sneered: "Inspector Lee, why don't you investigate this properly?"

I won't admit it in the jail cell, but on my own turf, I can lay it all out on you!

Since I became the head of Wo Luen Shing, what has I done that violated public order and good morals?
Which investment deal did not comply with Hong Kong Island laws?
"I haven't paid any taxes! The money I've spent on these neighbors is almost enough to pay your police force's salaries for half a year!"

As He Yaozong spoke, he took out a lighter from his pocket and lit a cigarette.

Li Wenbin, with his sharp eyes, recognized the lighter as the one He Yaozong had taken from him the previous night.

But then He Yaozong continued.

"What have I done wrong? These people were driven out of the city by you, and they don't even have a place to stay!"
In the past, they were able to do some small business in the Walled City. If I hadn't stepped in to help them, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to even afford the monthly rent for their low-rent housing!
Without a place to live, what do you think they would do?
Go sell noodles, go dig for all sorts of shady stuff!

I think your police force should really thank me. It was me who maintained public order for you!

These words left Li Wenbin speechless.

Regardless, He Yaozong did indeed spend real money to do these things.

But this time he came with a mission assigned by the Commissioner of Police.

The situation at Kai Tak Airport has escalated to an unmanageable point, and the police force must find a scapegoat to close the case before tonight…

(End of this chapter)