HKSAR v. WANG ZHEJUN

HKSAR

 v.

Wang Zhejun

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Before:  Hon McMahon, J

Transcript of the Audio Recording
of theOrder in the above case

COURT:  The accused in this case has been found not guilty of the murder of his mother due to insanity. 

The facts of the case, as must have been accepted by the jury, are quite straightforward.  He chopped his mother to death in a quite brutal killing, but at the time of doing so was suffering from a very severe form of paranoid schizophrenia, which led him to believe that his mother was a Japanese spy who intended to kill him. 

For the purposes of considering any order under s.76(2)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, I have been provided with two further psychiatric reports from Professor Dominic Lee and Professor Felice Lieh Mak, both of whom gave evidence at the trial.  Each of those reports are to the effect that an order should be made under the provisions of s.76(2)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance and that the order should be for an indeterminate period. 

I am satisfied that such an order is appropriate, both for the welfare of the accused and also for the protection of other persons in Hong Kong.  I am satisfied also on the basis of those reports that the order should be for an indeterminate period. 

Accordingly, I order that the accused be admitted to the Correctional Services Department psychiatric centre, and that that admission be for an indeterminate period.  The Order is made pursuant to Schedule 4 of the Ordinance.