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Hong Kong Case Law

Child sexual assault

  • 9 Jan 2024

    HKSAR v. AMIR AFTAB

    Citation
    [2024] HKCA 32
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC12/2022

    The Court refused renewal of leave to appeal because the trial judge's lengthy and standard directions on inconsistencies, inferences, speculation and hearsay were adequate; there was no bias; X's direct evidence together with cogent circumstantial and forensic evidence was sufficient to support a conviction for attempted rape; the complaint that the conviction was inconsistent with the pathologist's findings was misconceived; the new grounds were out of time and without merit.

  • 25 Sept 2020

    香港特別行政區 訴 呂偉龍

    Citation
    [2020] HKCFI 2338
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA539/2019

    The court upheld the conviction: the trial judge properly found the child complainant credible and the identification reliable based on multiple encounters and a reliable recognition procedure; the touching was deliberate not accidental; although the judge erred in attributing the October incident to the appellant, that error was immaterial to the safety of the conviction because the identification from the November/December encounter and the February incident together proved identity beyond reasonable doubt, and the judge applied Turnbull caution appropriately.

  • 23 Feb 1996

    THE QUEEN v. PANG SIU HONG

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. PANG SIU HONG
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC698/1995

    Given the extreme seriousness of the offences (knife-enabled abduction of an almost 11-year-old, robbery and attempted rape with forced oral sex), the starting points chosen by the judge were justified, the generous discount for robbery balanced a relatively smaller discount for attempted rape, consecutive sentences were appropriate and the total effective sentence of 12 years was within the permissible range; leave to appeal against sentence is refused.