18 Dec 2024
HKSAR v. MONTANO ALMA PUTONG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2024] HKCA 1180
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC137/2023
The leave applications were refused because the jury's guilty verdicts were supported by a strong circumstantial case—coordinated WhatsApp communications, identification evidence, controlled delivery and corresponding phone records—such that an irresistible inference of knowledge was open; the judge properly directed the jury on the use of the 2nd applicant's prior convictions and the complaints about counsel and insufficiency of evidence lacked merit.