17 Dec 2002
HKSAR v. LE VAN THO
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LE VAN THO
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA947/2002
The court held the magistrate was entitled to rely on the identified aggravating factors and that the starting point of nine months for charges 2 and 3 was not excessive, but the magistrate had double counted the on-bail aggravating factor by both increasing individual sentences and ordering them to run wholly consecutively; to avoid double counting and to respect the totality principle the sentence on the 1st charge was reduced to five months ten days and concurrency adjusted so the aggregate term became ten months imprisonment.