31 Mar 2023
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. LAW SIU KIN
- Citation
- [2023] HKCA 352
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR6/2022
The court held the starting point of 2 years 9 months adopted by the sentencing judge was manifestly inadequate given the high level of intoxication (near three times limit), deliberate aggressive driving, ignoring warnings, failure to stop and delayed surrender; an appropriate starting point was 5 years, reduced by the full one-third guilty plea discount and a further 4 months adjustment for review, producing an effective sentence of 3 years' imprisonment on Charge 1; sentences for Charges 2 and 3 ordered to run concurrently because they were already taken into account as aggravating feature…