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1. The respondent was convicted of three charges of burglary and one charge of going equipped for stealing. The three burglaries were committed within a short space of time and in the same district that is, at Nos. 11, 12 and 13 Headland Road, Hong Kong. All were committed at night and the charge of going equipped for stealing related to the possession of a torch and a pair of gloves in the course of the third robbery during which the respondent was overpowered by the householder. He was sentenc