Read the full judgment text of DCCC 000788/2008 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 7 January 2009.
1. Both defendants have today been convicted of one count of blackmail, which is the 4th charge. As well, D1 has been convicted on one count of blackmail and one count of claiming to be a member of a triad society, the 1st and 2nd charges. They did not plead guilty before me, but were found guilty after a trial. Therefore, they cannot get any credit with respect to sentence a plea of guilty would have given them.