2 Sept 1993
THE QUEEN v. TRAN QUANG TIEP
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. TRAN QUANG TIEP
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA556/1993
The 18 month sentence for pickpocketing was manifestly excessive; the correct approach is to adopt a normal starting point of about 15 months for this offence, then reduce for the guilty plea and mitigation (while noting previous convictions remove good character credit but do not justify increasing the sentence), resulting in a substituted sentence of 12 months imprisonment.