31 Mar 2015
HKSAR v. YEUNG HO WAI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. YEUNG HO WAI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC271/2013
Although the trial judge erred by omitting certain mandatory phrases in the duress direction and softening mandatory language, the summing up as a whole made clear that if the jury accepted the applicant's account (or found it maybe true) they must acquit; suspicion is not enough for knowledge though knowledge can be inferred from circumstances; evidence of parallel trading was relevant and appropriately qualified; and the sentence of 22 years (starting point 21 increased by one year for importation) was within the correct range and not manifestly excessive given 1.14 kg of methamphetamine an…