Read the full judgment text of CACC 000567/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 22 September 1972.
1. The appellant is a soldier who, in February 1972, was serving with a battalion of the Irish Guards then stationed at Stanley Fort, Hong Kong. On 27th July 1972 he was convicted of murder, the particulars of the offence being that on 15th February at Chung Hom Kok Road near Repulse Bay Road, he murdered a taxi-driver named TAM Hoi-chuen.