Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000017/1983 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an application for review of sentence on the part of the Attorney General. The Respondent was convicted of an offence under s.17 of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance, the charge arose out of an occurrence on the 22nd of March 1983. On that day the victim Lee Chi-wing, a school boy of some 16 years, was returning home from school at mid-day in the company of a companion, when he was approached by three young men, one of these was the present respondent. He was forced to walk