Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000274/2003 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 May 2003.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The appellant was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, having pleaded guilty to an offence of theft and to 21 months' imprisonment consecutively for unlawfully remaining in Hong Kong. The facts of the theft were very simple. A lady had sat down on a bench by the Cultural Centre and put her backpack on the seat beside her. This appellant took it and made off with it. Happily, he was caught.