Read the full judgment text of CACC 000122/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 August 1997.
1. On 27th January 1997, the applicant appeared in front of Leong J having pleaded guilty to six offences in the Magistrate's Court. Those offences were; an offence of theft from a jewellery shop in Connaught Road on 29th August 1996 and at the same time, a second offence of possession of an offensive weapon - that was a bread knife stuffed in his belt - in a public place. The third offence was attempting to rob the Nanyang Commercial Bank in Bonham Strand on 9th July 1996. The fourth offence wa