11 Feb 2022
律政司司長 訴 葉慧善
- Citation
- [2022] HKCA 226
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR12/2021
The Court concluded the original sentence for count 3 (dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm) was manifestly inadequate because the sentencing judge failed to sufficiently reflect the high objective dangerousness and moral culpability of using a vehicle as an instrument of criminality and the severe, partly permanent injuries to the victim; the appropriate starting point for count 3 was 45 months reduced to 30 months for the guilty plea, with the other counts retained and the total sentence set at 42 months and then reduced by a further 3 months due to the proximity of earliest relea…