22 Jan 2003
HKSAR v. WONG KA CHI & ANOTHER
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WONG KA CHI & ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1063/2002
The court upheld the magistrate's assessment that the offence of possessing and using skimmers to capture genuine credit card data is particularly serious due to planning and technical skill, that the magistrate was entitled to treat both appellants' roles as non-transient and non-peripheral, and that community service or suspended sentence were not justified; only the 2nd appellant merited a one month further reduction for assistance to ICAC, reducing his sentence from 16 to 15 months while the 1st appellant's 16 month sentence was upheld.