Read the full judgment text of CACC 000277/2001 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 8 November 2001.
1. On 20 July 2001, the Applicant was convicted of riot following a trial in the District Court before Deputy Judge Mackintosh. He now seeks leave to appeal against conviction on the ground, as he put it in his home-made written grounds, that he was "absolutely innocent". He also stated in those grounds that when the incident occurred, he had been admitted to the hospital in the Hei Ling Chau Drug Addiction Treatment Centre (the Centre) because of injuries he received when he was assaulted by Vi