Read the full judgment text of CACC 000087/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 January 1997.
1. There are two applicants before us: Cheung Yuen-chung (D1) and Cheung Man-tsan (D2) who were the 1st and 2nd defendants at the trial. They were charged together with a 3rd defendant Law San-kit on an indictment which contained a count of rape, with an alternative count of attempted rape. At the time of the offence, 8 June 1995, they were respectively 22 and 17 years of age. The 3rd defendant Law San-kit was 14 years old. At the conclusion of the evidence of the alleged victim Wong Man-yi (PW1