Read the full judgment text of CACC 000572/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 August 1995.
1. The appellant was convicted of murder by a majority verdict. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. At the trial the appellant admitted that he had killed his aunt Madam Fu on 16 August 1982. The appellant was then nineteen. The appellant fled Hong Kong and managed to stay away for almost 12 years before he was apprehended in Sweden. The appellant was duly brought back to Hong Kong and charged with the murder of his aunt.