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  • 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…