Read the full judgment text of CACC 000430/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 July 1997.
1. The applicant faced three charges of blackmail, 15 charges of procurement by threats, one charge of theft, one charge of attempted theft and one charge of doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice. All of the charges involved the applicant and his girl friend a Miss Tong Sze-nga. Apart from the last charge they occurred between 26 th January and 4 th February 1996. Each of the 15 procurement charges alleged that the applicant had procured Miss Tong to commit an