Read the full judgment text of CACC 000525/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 August 1995.
1. The applicant faced 18 counts - seven of robbery, eight of rape and three of murder. All were committed during the course of ten attacks upon women in the Tuen Mun and Hung Hom areas between 24th April 1992 and 5th August 1993. The applicant pleaded guilty to the robbery and the rape counts and was found guilty after trial before Bewley J. and a jury on the three murder counts. Mandatory sentences of life imprisonment were imposed on each of the murder counts. The trial judge said when senten