Read the full judgment text of CACC 000097/1975 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. We are concerned here with a series of very serious offences. A young girl was seized at knife point, carried off in a motor-car and detained against her will for nearly a week. It is difficult to imagine the strain on the parents of this girl, who were overseas, and on her god-parents, who had accepted responsibility for her care while she was in Hong Kong. We must agree with the learned judge that these were offences which "cried out for imprisonment" in spite of the youth of some of the Ac