18 Dec 2001
HKSAR v. NGUYEN BUI TUAN
- Citation
- HKSAR v. NGUYEN BUI TUAN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA159/2001
The Court affirmed the magistrate's exercise of sentencing discretion: 10 months concurrent for possession/use of forged identity card, 18 months for unlawful remaining, and 10 months for breach of deportation order with six months ordered consecutive and four months concurrent to reflect enhanced culpability for breaching a deportation order and the appellant's repeat offending; consecutive running of sentences for the immigration offences to the identity document offences was justified by the appellant's history and aggravating use of the forged card; post-sentencing humanitarian evidence d…