22 Jan 2021
香港特別行政區 訴 鄧文祖及另二人
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 184
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA119/2019
The convictions were unsafe because the prosecution failed to exclude reasonable doubt that the appellants' records contained deliberate falsehoods; CCTV evidence and the context showed ambiguity as to whether the items were taken from the right or left pocket and whether an actual hand search occurred, and the omission of the episode where the suspect discarded the item rendered the records incomplete rather than demonstrably false; doubts therefore resolved for appellants and convictions quashed.