5 Jan 2016
HKSAR v. WALID, MABROUK SHAWKY MOHAMED
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WALID, MABROUK SHAWKY MOHAMED
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA713/2015
The appeal was abandoned by the appellant and dismissed; although the Magistrate's sentence for the drug offence conformed with guideline authority, the starting point adopted for the theft offence was unduly low given value of stolen property ($463 HKD), persistent reoffending, offending shortly after release and while on bail, and the court would have adopted a substantially higher starting point (up to 9 months) before applying guilty plea reduction and the totality principle, but did not increase the sentence because the appellant abandoned the appeal.