21 Feb 1997
R. v. YIP KIN CHIT
- Citation
- R. v. YIP KIN CHIT
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC275/1996
Convictions upheld because the contested factual issues (credibility of police, location of gun, voluntariness of admission) were properly left to the jury and there was no basis to conclude the convictions were unsafe; on sentence, some reduction was warranted because the informer encouraged the offence to a degree amounting to entrapment short of official police instigation, but the applicant's active steps (travel to procure weapon, possession of loaded weapon) placed the entrapment at the lower end and justified only a modest reduction from eight to seven years concurrent.