Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000490/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 August 1999.
1. This is an appeal against the imposition of a Training Centre order imposed upon the appellant at the Kwun Tong Magistracy following his plea of guilty to an offence of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place contrary to section 33(1) of Cap. 245. The offence was committed on the 18th January 1999 shortly after the appellant had turned 14 years of age. He was arrested at night and found to have tucked in his waistband a beef knife wrapped in newspaper. He claimed it was for self defe