16 Sept 2020
香港特別行政區 訴 游祖怡
- Citation
- [2020] HKCA 764
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC236/2018
Leave to appeal out of time against sentence is granted and the sentencing appeal is allowed because, although the applicant's testimony in the related trial was not wholly reliable such that a full discount was unwarranted, she did testify for three days and her evidence contributed to the conviction; a limited reduction of 15% for that assistance is appropriate and, given time already served (equivalent to 85% of the sentence after adjustments for good conduct), ordering further custody would be excessive — therefore the sentence is reduced to permit immediate release.