23 Apr 1999
HKSAR v. YIP KAI FOON
- Citation
- HKSAR v. YIP KAI FOON
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC139/1997
The Court upheld the substantive sentences for the firearm and explosives offences as within the proper range given the exceptional gravity and public danger, but found the two year sentence for escape excessive and the aggregate totality of the sentences crushing; it reduced the escape sentence to one year and adjusted the commencement of the 29 year sentence so it runs four years earlier than originally ordered, producing an overall effective sentence of 36 years and 3 months, while otherwise leaving the individual sentence lengths intact.