Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000200/2003 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 April 2003.
1. This is an appeal against conviction for robbery. In the late afternoon of 27th August of last year, a 30-year-old lady was walking along a main road in Wong Tai Sin with her four children. She was robbed by two men. They got away with her handbag. The total value of the items taken was some $10,000. She put up a struggle. There was a tug-of-war over the bag.