Read the full judgment text of CACC 000523/1984 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 December 1984.
1. The Appellant was convicted in the Kowloon District Court of robbery. The offence was committed in the small hours of the morning at a block of flats in Waterloo Road. A man and a woman persuaded the caretaker of the flats to unlock the entrance gate on a pretext of visiting somebody inside. As soon as he had done so two men, perhaps more, rushed in. One of the two men held a knife, the other was the Appellant. Together they dragged the caretaker away, bound him with wire and gagged him with