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  • 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…