Read the full judgment text of CACC 000475/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 8 June 2001.
1. The Applicant, who is about 75 years old, appeared before Gall J on an indictment alleging three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. In short, the prosecution's case was that in the course of a disagreement on 8 October 1999 with one of his co-tenants in a 7th floor flat in Chaiwan, he set fire to the premises using some kerosene which was stored there as fuel for a heater. In the result, three persons, aged between 57 and 90, died in the fire and a fourth was able to escape w