Read the full judgment text of CACC 000047/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 June 1996.
1. This applicant faced two charges - assault with intent to rob and remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration. He pleaded guilty to both of those charges. The facts revealed that, while trying to rob a lady, who appears to have been Dutch, in a toilet in Chater Garden, he assaulted and stabbed her. The stab wounds were one of 2 cm depth on the chest and two of 1 cm depth on her thigh. They were not, it is true, serious stab wounds but the fact that he was prepa