Read the full judgment text of DCCC 280/2012 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 31 August 2012.
1. An innocent man died while he was in the lawful custody of the Hong Kong Correctional Service Department on 16 August 2009. The deceased person, Mr Chen Chu-nan (hereinafter referred to as ‘the deceased’), was an otherwise healthy 30 year old Taiwanese national with no known history of major illness or substance abuse. Arrested in Hong Kong by the police on the 12th day of August, he was under a court order to be remanded in Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre until 11 September 2009.