Read the full judgment text of CACC 000181/1989 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 September 1989.
1. The Applicant, TAM Cheuk Keung, was, in September last year, employed by a restaurant which provided staff quarters on the 26th floor of Tung Ning House in Shatin. On three almost consecutive days towards the end of the month, that is on two occasions at lunchtime and once in the evening, he entered three neighbouring flats by the simple expedient of climbing down from the roof or out through his own window into an open window of the flat in question. Once there he stole a variety of objects,