Read the full judgment text of DCCC 000896/2009 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 31 December 2009.
1. The defendant has pleaded guilty to a charge of blackmail. The particulars of the offence are that on 29 June 2009, he went to a shop at the ground floor of the Lei Muk Shue Estate in Hong Kong and blackmailed the owner of the shop. The facts admitted by the defendant disclose that the shop itself is a grocery shop. The owner of the shop is referred to in the Summary of Facts as PW1, and there was a member of staff on the premises at the time of the offence, and he is referred to PW2.