Read the full judgment text of CACC 29/2024 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 November 2025.
1. On 23 January 2024, the applicant was unanimously convicted before Johnny Chan J (“the judge”) and a jury of one count of murder, contrary to common law and punishable under section 2 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, Cap 212 (Count 1); and another count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, contrary to common law and punishable under section 39 of the same Ordinance. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment and 6 months’ imprisonment on the two counts respec