Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000630/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 January 2007.
1. This is an appeal against a conviction for theft. The circumstances are rather unusual. The appellant was a man travelling through Hong Kong and he transited here, having flown in and intending to fly out on the same airline. In the course of his transit through the airport in Hong Kong, his hand baggage was x-rayed and it was opened and inspected and, inside it, was an airline life vest wrapped in an airline blanket and the airline vest had come from under the seat upon which this appella