23 Dec 2016
HKSAR v. NG CHUN TO, RAYMOND
- Citation
- HKSAR v. NG CHUN TO, RAYMOND
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC65/2015
The Court refused the appeal and affirmed the sentences: given the scale, sophistication, cross‑border element and the available evidence that several hundred million dollars of profit were generated and about HK$150m benefited the appellant, the trial judge was entitled to adopt a 6‑year starting point and, after generous discounts including for retrial and delay, to impose concurrent sentences of 4.5 years on each conspiracy count; although the judge should have explained the increase over the first trial sentence, the lack of specific explanation did not make the sentence excessive or wron…