8 Aug 2003
HKSAR v. CHEUNG LAI MAN
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHEUNG LAI MAN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC533/2002
The Court of Appeal concluded the judge erred in imposing life imprisonment because the Crown had not established the appellant would remain an untreatable and indefinite danger to the public; psychiatric and psychological evidence did not show untreatability to justify an indeterminate sentence. Applying starting points and a one-third reduction for guilty pleas and the totality principle, the appropriate determinate sentence is 24 years (12 years on count 2, plus consecutive 6 years on each of counts 5 and 6). The previously fixed minimum term under s.67B is therefore irrelevant and excessi…