16 Oct 2019
香港特別行政區 訴 李偉嘉
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFI 2483
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCC268/2019
The court ruled that the WhatsApp admission (confession (one)) and the recorded admission to the complainant's mother (confession (three)) were proved to have been made voluntarily beyond reasonable doubt and are admissible; the alleged oral admission in the park (confession (two)) could not be proved voluntary and is inadmissible. The court declined to exercise its discretion to exclude the admissible admissions on the basis of deleted WhatsApp material, finding missing content goes to weight for the jury rather than mandatory exclusion.