From the South China Morning Post this week in 1966
A key witness of the Kowloon riots denied before the Commission of Inquiry that he had received a $5,000 'payoff' from Elsie Elliott (today better known as Elsie Tu) for his part in the anti-fare-rise demonstrations.
Lo Kei said he had to 'admit' the 'payoff' at a police station because he had been viciously assaulted there.
He said he had never mentioned to anyone the money alleged to have been paid to him.
Another major witness, So Sau-chung, who went on a hunger strike to protest against the Star Ferry increases, was jailed for contempt by the commission when he refused, for the third time, to take the prescribed oath.
Barrister Albert Sanguinetti, appearing for Mrs Elliott applied for an order by the commission that statements be supplied to him in advance, as some had been supplied to counsel for the government and the police.
