21 Sept 2007
HKSAR v. WONG KA WAH AND OTHERS
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WONG KA WAH AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC261/2006
The Court held that the circumstantial evidence — possession of bank letters (one bearing the applicant's thumbprint), numerous cut bank/credit cards linked to co-defendants, keys opening a letterbox at a fraud address, and a laminated card listing area names, personal names and access codes tied to the conspiracies — was sufficient to convict the applicant of being party to the conspiracies; the trial judges properly applied R v Sharp to give little weight to untested, inherently improbable exculpatory interview statements; sentencing adjustments were warranted to correct unjustifiable dispa…