6 Oct 1983
THE QUEEN v. CHENG CHUN-TIM
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. CHENG CHUN-TIM
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR13/1983
The magistrate's sentence of 2 weeks suspended was manifestly inadequate and wrong in principle for an unprovoked assault on a prison officer; the appropriate immediate custodial sentence, taking into account mitigation (withdrawal symptoms and guilty plea) and that the matter was on review, is 3 months imprisonment to run consecutively with the existing sentence.