Read the full judgment text of CACC 79/2024 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 February 2025.
1. On 14 March 2024, the applicant was sentenced on his own plea by Andrew Chan J (“the judge”) to 11 years and 3 months’ imprisonment for the offence of attempted murder, contrary to Common Law and sections 159G and 159J(1)(a) of the Crimes Ordinance, Cap 200. After hearing mitigation, the judge adopted a starting point of 15 years’ imprisonment, for which he discounted the sentence by 25%, since the plea had only been indicated following the applicant’s committal to the High Court for trial on
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