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1. The applicant, TONG Wai-yu, was tried in the District Court on charges of blackmail and attempting to pervert the course of public justice. He was convicted on the 5th of February of both of those offences and he received sentences of 2½ years upon each count, the sentences to run concurrently. He applied for legal aid and legal aid was refused on the 20th of March.