25 May 1999
HKSAR v. WONG YAN MING AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WONG YAN MING AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC565/1998
The Court upheld the convictions because PW1's identification and evidence that the words and context operated as menaces on an ordinary person were safe; the trial judge did not err in her assessment of identification or by omitting express reference to oral admissions. On sentence, the Court held the theft sentence must run concurrently with the blackmail sentence because both arose from the same transaction and reduced the assault sentences from 3 to 2 years as excessive; for Lo adjusted totality to a 4-year term by making 18 months of the 2-year assault sentence consecutive to the concurr…