Read the full judgment text of CACC 000619/1993 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 February 1995.
1. The applicant was, after trial before Wong J. and a jury, found guilty of murder. The charge alleged that on the 23rd day of October 1989 at an unnumbered wooden hut in Fuk Hang Tsuen, Lam Tei, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong, he had murdered Mak Wai-ngor. The victim was the wife of the applicant. It was the Crown case that he murdered his wife by incinerating her, having arranged the scene so that it would appear that she had been the victim of an accidental fire which occurred while sh