14 Aug 2012
香港特別行政區 訴 冼日秀及另三人
- Citation
- 香港特別行政區 訴 冼日秀及另三人
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC485/2011
Appellate court held convictions and sentences should be analysed individually: the fifth applicant's conviction and 20‑month sentence were upheld because sustained surveillance, repeated transport of loaded buckets, concealment practices, timing and proximity to shore permitted an irresistible inference of knowledge and participation; the sixth and seventh applicants' convictions were quashed because prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they knew the goods would be exported (gaps in proof linking items at their premises to the goods seized at sea and plausibly innocent ex…