Read the full judgment text of CACC 000449/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 July 2001.
2. The defendant was on trial before Beeson J and a jury. The charge that he faced was murder, in that on 11 July 1999 he murdered Tse Sum. On 19 October 2000, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. The Judge passed a sentence of seven years' imprisonment on the defendant.