HKSAR v. Lo Chun Siu

Read the full judgment text of HCCC 248/2014 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 July 2016.

Case No.HCCC 248/2014
Court
High Court CFI
Date26 Jul 2016
Judge
Case Document
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HCCC 248/2014

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 248 OF 2016

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  HKSAR  
  v  
  LO Chun-siu  

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Before: Hon Toh J
Date: 26 July 2016 at 10.21 am
Present: Mr Keith Oderberg and Ms Shiranne Richards, on fiat, for HKSAR
Mr Ian Polson, instructed by Tse Yuen Ting Wong, for the accused
Offence: Murder (謀殺)

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Transcript of the Audio Recording
of the Sentence in the above Case

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COURT: We have heard in evidence from your father who has displayed great patience and love for you about the tragic events of the day your mother was killed.

As Mr Polson, your counsel, has indicated, this attention deficit and hyperactive disorder did affect your school work and caused you to leave school because you were unable to get along.

Because of that, by staying at home and unable to hold down a job, the situation deteriorated between your mother and yourself. Those are tragic circumstances, but I have no doubt, having listened to your father’s evidence that he and your mother were trying to make a good family home for you when you were growing up.

It is tragic that it has come down to this.

There is only one sentence in law that I can impose on you for the offence of murder: I sentence you to life imprisonment.