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1. This appellant was convicted of stealing electricity. This is not the first time he has committed that offence. He was convicted only two months previously. When I read the papers before the hearing today I thought I might derive some assistance by looking at the record of that earlier conviction. I therefore bespoke the record from Causeway Bay Magistracy. I regret to say that I was not able to derive the slightest assistance from it. Apart from the formal charge sheet the record consists of