Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000892/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 1 November 2006.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The Appellant was stopped in May of this year, in Central, by a police officer and was asked for proof of his identity and he produced a forged passport. It was apparent to the officer that there had been a substitution of the photograph. When asked about the matter, the Appellant said that he had arrived in Hong Kong some five years ago and, having lost his own passport, he had bought the one he then produced, from a friend, for $3,000.