30 Apr 2009
HKSAR v. LI CHENG HONG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LI CHENG HONG AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC202/2008
The Court upheld the sentencing framework adopted by the trial judge as appropriate given the series of planned, cross-border, armed robberies with severe injuries and a death; however it allowed limited appellate intervention where a particular starting-point was unjustified: D5's manslaughter starting-point was reduced from 18 to 16 years with a 20% plea discount applied to yield a substituted sentence (count 13 reduced to 12 years 9 months) and the total sentence fixed at 16 years; D7's conspiracy sentence was reduced from 8 years to 6 years 8 months; leave applications for D1, D2, D3 and…