Read the full judgment text of CACC 000235/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 April 1982.
1. On the 5th January this year at 7.30 a.m. a school boy aged 14 was kidnapped. A ransom demand was made to the boy's father and the police were called in. On the 8th January the boy's body was found in a shallow grave at Shatin; he had been murdered a few hours after his abduction. Meanwhile, a man had been arrested ("the suspect"). The suspect lived in a room in the Kwai Shing Estate, Kowloon and a detective constable went there at 8 p.m. on the 8th January. He found the two appellants there.