28 Feb 1995
R. v. YU TAI WING
- Citation
- R. v. YU TAI WING
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC454/1994
For a lone, opportunistic public-place robbery using an imitation firearm where no injury occurs, sentencing must distinguish from high-stakes robberies; a starting point of 12 years was excessive in this factual context. The Court set an overall appropriate sentence of 8 years (by ordering consecutive terms of 5 and 3 years) after applying the totality principle and giving weight to the applicant's 20 years unblemished police service.