20 Jan 1988
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. SIN WAI LUN
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. SIN WAI LUN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR22/1987
The probation sentence was wrong in principle because facilitating participants are as culpable as direct assailants and the mitigating factors did not outweigh the public interest in deterrent custodial sentences for this type of gang-related violent attack; on review the appropriate sentence was three years concurrent reduced by the review discount to two years concurrent on each count.