19 Feb 2009
HKSAR v. CHEN CHUNHUA
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHEN CHUNHUA
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1053/2008
The appeal court allowed a partial appeal on compassionate grounds: having regard to the appellant's guilty pleas, prior conviction, the established compassionate circumstances (husband's medical treatment and death, family responsibilities and debts) and existing sentencing practice, the appropriate relief was to reduce the concurrent sentences on Counts 1 and 2 from 6 months to 3 months, leaving the 2‑month consecutive sentence for Count 3 intact, thereby reducing total imprisonment from 8 to 5 months and permitting immediate release.