KEEPING MARK JOHN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
The High Court held that 12 months’ imprisonment for abetment of cheating by personation under s 419 was manifestly excessive and set a four- to six-month benchmark.
- Abetment of cheating by personation (s 419 penal code)
- Benchmark sentence
- Parity
- Manifestly excessive sentence
- Relevance of analogous precedents
- Sentencing