Read the full judgment text of CACC 119/2009 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 14 January 2011.
1. The applicants were tried jointly before Wright J and a jury on a numbers of charges arising out of an alleged conspiracy with others to rob the grave of the deceased wife of a prominent Hong Kong businessman and demand a ransom from him for the return of her remains. Both applicants were found not guilty of the charged conspiracy to blackmail, but the 1 st applicant was convicted of an offence of theft which concerned the stealing of property from the cemetery caretaker and his wife who had