12 Jul 2017
HKSAR v. PUN RAM KRISHNA
- Citation
- HKSAR v. PUN RAM KRISHNA
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA215/2017
Given the appellant’s admitted theft to fund ongoing heroin and cannabis abuse, his prior convictions, the DATC suitability report indicating continued substance abuse and lack of insight, and the magnitude of the theft, a detention order in a DATC was an appropriate, proportionate and rehabilitative sentence; the magistrate did not err in principle and the duty lawyer’s mitigation was adequate, therefore the appeal against sentence is dismissed.