Read the full judgment text of CACC 000545/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 January 1998.
1. On 21st August, 1997, the Applicant pleaded guilty before Judge Kilgour in the District Court to the offences of robbery and remaining in Hong Kong without authority. He received a sentence of three years and four months on the first of those charges and eight months to be served consecutively on the second, making four years' imprisonment in all. His co-defendant (D2) received the same sentences for the same offences but he has abandoned his application in advance in writing.