Read the full judgment text of CACC 000452/2004 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 May 2005.
1. On 10 August 2004, the applicant, aged 34, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter, on the ground of diminished responsibility. The prosecution accepted the plea being aware of the applicant’s long history of schizophrenia and having been supplied with a report from Dr Chan Sai-yin. This expressed the opinion, in the terms set out in the summary of facts, that the applicant was “probably in relapse of schizophrenia” at the relevant time and that “because of the psychotic rel