Read the full judgment text of CACC 276/2010 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 August 2011.
1. On 10 June 2010, following a trial in the Court of First Instance before Mr Justice McMahon and a jury, the applicant, who had been charged with the murder of a woman named Feng De Li Zhi Ying, was acquitted of murder but, by reason of diminished responsibility, convicted of manslaughter. The applicant, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, was ordered to be detained in a correctional services psychiatric centre for an indeterminate period pursuant to s. 45 of the Mental Health Ordinance