Read the full judgment text of CACC 000528/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant appeals against his conviction on an indictment for murder. On the morning of 17th December 1974 the body of a 16-year-old girl was found, in a carton designed to contain a television receiving set, on the pavement in Wong Nei Chong Road. The girl was naked and the forensic pathologist gave evidence that she had died of strangulation. From scratches on the neck and face he suggested that strangulation had occurred by pressure from a forearm which the deceased had made desperate