HKSAR v. CHAN CHUN TAT

HCCC441/2011

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO. 441 OF 2011

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Transcript of the Audio Recording
of the Sentence in the above Case

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COURT: Accused, I have taken into account everything said on your behalf.

You wounded the victim with intent to do her grievous bodily harm.

The attack was horrific. It began with the use of a screwdriver with which you stabbed the victim, your estranged wife, repeatedly. When she managed to escape from the room where that took place, you pursued her to the balcony to which she had fled. There, you used a two-foot long bread knife to cut her neck. Fortunately, she managed to pull the knife away.

The injuries which the victim suffered, of which there are many, resulted in her undergoing surgery and being hospitalised for 13 days.

You have your problems, but a court would be failing in its duty if it did not take a very serious view of what you did. The only real mitigation available to you is your plea of guilty.

All things considered, including all the mitigation letters written on your behalf, I adopt a starting point of 12 years’ imprisonment.

Reducing that by a third for your plea of guilty, I sentence you to 8 years’ imprisonment. You will therefore go to prison for 8 years.