Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000007/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 September 1995.
1. The respondents pleaded guilty before Saied J. on 6th February 1995 to manslaughter and to blackmail. The first count had originally been one of murder but the court was prepared to allow the applicants to enter pleas to the lesser offence of manslaughter on that count. The manslaughter count particularized that the two respondents had on 29th August 1994 unlawfully caused the death at the rooftop of Chi Wo House, Wo Che Estate, Shatin, of Hung Siu-chung. The blackmail count particularized th