Read the full judgment text of CACC 000397/2003 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 July 2004.
1. On 25 July 2002 in a flat in Tuen Mun, a boy aged about 9 and his sister aged 4 died at the hands of the Applicant. He was charged with their murder. On 29 August 2003, after a summing-up by Tong J that day, a jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty against the Applicant. He was aged 24 when convicted. He now seeks leave to appeal against conviction. Originally, he also applied for leave to appeal against sentence. This was of course not possible given the mandatory life imprisonment foll