9 Apr 2009
HKSAR v. THAPA RAJU
- Citation
- HKSAR v. THAPA RAJU
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC343/2008
The conviction was quashed because material omissions and inconsistencies in the complainant's contemporaneous police statement—particularly the failure to mention recognition from a prior encounter that supplied motive and the conflicting description of the assailant's complexion—undermined the reliability of the identification and rendered the conviction unsafe.