29 Apr 1992
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. NGUYEN NGOC CUONG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. NGUYEN NGOC CUONG AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR13/1990
For riot offences in detention centres the appropriate sentence after trial is higher than the District Court sentences imposed here and a five-year custodial sentence is an appropriate benchmark for riot after trial in these circumstances, although no order was made due to delay. For the drug offences the trial judge erred by failing to apply the Chenq Yeunq conversion to No.3 heroin; starting points should have been within the 8–12 year bracket. Having applied reductions for delay, plea and other review factors, the court substituted six years for Tse Ka Wah and five years for Chan Chu Ming…