HKSAR v. YEUNG SAI FAI

CACC 176/2002

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF APPEAL

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 176 OF 2002

(ON APPEAL FROM DCCC 99 OF 2002)

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J U D G M E N T

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1. The applicant asks that he be put on probation on account of the fact that he is remorseful and needs to look after his grandmother.

2. This was a very serious offence. The applicant and another man mugged a female and snatched her handbag. There were no convincing mitigating circumstances. But for his relatively tender age of 17 years he would have received a substantial term of imprisonment. Having regard to all the circumstances the Judge was entirely right to order that the applicant should be remanded in a training centre.

3. The application for leave to appeal against sentence is dismissed.