Read the full judgment text of CACC 000277/2002 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 14 March 2003.
1. The applicants were two out of seven defendants who were convicted after trial in the District Court on 16 May 2002. All seven were charged with blackmail (Cap.210, section 23) and the 2nd to 7th defendants were charged with acting as members of a triad society (Cap.151, section 20(2)). The 1st defendant had also been charged with offences of criminal intimidation (relating to an incident which had occurred about a week earlier at the same location) and claiming to be a member of a triad soci