Read the full judgment text of CACC 000148/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 October 1994.
1. This case involves events in a block of flats in Tsuen Wan in the small hours of the morning of December 2, 1992. To the unfortunate residents of that block of flats it must have seemed as if war had broken out. Hail after hail of gunfire shattered the calm. A grenade went off. Tear gas was fired. Until rescued, one unfortunate family was held hostage in its own home by a group of men, including one of them armed with an assault rifle.