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  • 15 Jul 2016

    HKSAR v. AZAD MOHAMMAD FARHAN

    Citation
    HKSAR v. AZAD MOHAMMAD FARHAN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC253/2015

    Leave to appeal against conviction refused; appellate court found no merit in challenges to audibility, summing-up, jury directions, or prosecution comments given the trial record and directions. Sentence exercise was reopened: substituted 15 years for rape and non-consensual buggery (concurrent) and ordered 2 years of the 4-year robbery sentence to run consecutively producing a 17-year total in CACC173/2015; in CACC253/2015 ordered two years of the 5 years 4 months sentence to run consecutively to CACC173, resulting in a 19-year total for the appellant.