Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000005/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 April 2000.
1. On 1 June 1999, the Respondent was convicted of rape following a trial in the Court of First Instance before Deputy Judge L. Tong and a jury. He was sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment. On 26 June 1999, the Acting Chief Judge granted the Secretary for Justice leave to apply to the Court of Appeal to review the sentence pursuant to section 81A of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Cap. 221. The present application has been put forward on the basis that the sentence was manifestly i
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