Read the full judgment text of CACC 000258/1981 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The applicant in this proceeding is one of four men, who in July 1979 hijacked a coach full of Japanese tourists. The coach had stopped at a what is called a "look-out" in the Lung Cheung Road for the tourists to admire the view and take photographs as they wished. The four men appeared as the tourists were getting back into the bus and one of them held a 12" melon knife. Having got the tourists back into the bus they made the driver drive on while they collected cash and securities from the