16 Feb 2016
HKSAR v. WAN HOI MING
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WAN HOI MING
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCC75/2015
The judge accepted on the balance of probabilities that the defendant was threatened by a creditor who held his wife hostage and that the defendant, fearing for her safety, rendered his mother-in-law unconscious to obtain money; the court found this a credible mitigating explanation for conduct resulting in death and treated the matter within the manslaughter plea context rather than murder.