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Topic

Assisting management of brothel

Legal area

Court

31 Jul 2024

香港特別行政區訴秦煒傑

Citation

[2024] HKCFI 2528
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA37/2024

The recorded interviews were voluntary and admissible; the three premises were brothels; appellant's actions—collecting payments on instructions, handling cash deposits, supplying goods and facilitating operations—constituted assisting management (operational control) of organised prostitution as established by evidence beyond reasonable doubt; convictions and a global immediate sentence of 7 months imprisonment were appropriate and upheld.
27 Jun 2017

香港特別行政區訴宋紅梅及另一人

Citation

香港特別行政區訴宋紅梅及另一人
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA324/2016

The court accepted the undercover officers' evidence that the terms used and conduct plainly indicated sexual services for an extra $200, that the premises (three small rooms with showers and massage beds, no licence) were used wholly or mainly for prostitution, that the first appellant managed the premises and the second appellant assisted management by receiving customers, performing massages and helping with room preparation and money, therefore both convictions were safe; sentencing: first appellant's 10 weeks imprisonment was upheld; second appellant's 8 weeks imprisonment was modified t…