Mr. G.J.X. McCoy, Senior Crown Counsel
CACC 326/1987
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
No. 326 of 1987 (Criminal)
BETWEEN
THE QUEEN
and
LEUNG Tai-moon
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Coram: Hon. Roberts, C.J. Hunter, J.A. & Nazareth, J.
Date of Hearing: 10th September 1987
Date of Judgment: 10th September 1987
JUDGMENT
Hunter, J.A.:
1. On the 30th July of this year the applicant was convicted by a jury after trial before O'Connor. J. of one count of robbery. The trial judge sentenced him to 8 years imprisonment. From that sentence he now seeks leave to appeal.
2. This was as the judge pointed out a serious robbery. The applicant and his friend invaded a hair-dressing salon. There seem to have been some 19 persons present at the time. Those persons were threatened with knives, tied up, intimated and robbed of their possessions. I do not doubt that the motivation behind it was to obtain money, to satisfy a drug addiction. But that does not start to go in mitigation. As the judge pointed out in Hong Kong these offences carry more or less standard sentences. To reflect the facts that I have already recited, the sentence was wholly proper and this application must be rejected.
(D.S. Hunter) Justice of Appeal
Applicant LEUNG Tai-moon in person
Mr. G.J.X. McCoy, Senior Crown Counsel for Crown/Respondent