21 Sept 1995
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. LI YING KUEN and Another
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. LI YING KUEN and Another
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR7/1995
The trial judge erred by placing excessive emphasis on parental failings and rehabilitation to the exclusion of society's interests and the separate blackmail offence; consequently the Training Centre Orders were unlawful and custodial sentences were required—each respondent to be imprisoned for five years on the manslaughter count and four years on the blackmail count, to run concurrently, after credit for guilty pleas and youth reduced the appropriate after‑trial exposure (10 and 6 years) to an overall five years.