- 50 -
D24 Sze Tak-loy
200. D24 is now aged 42, he was the Chairman of ADPL and a District Councillor for Wong Tai Sin District. He has a clear criminal record.
201. Mr. Peter Wong, Mr. Mark Leung and Ms. Larissa Wong counsel for D24, submitted that D24 was not a principal offender and was no more than an “active participant”. We accepted that to be the case.
202. We received mitigation letters from D24, his wife, parents and siblings, Mr. Frederick Fung, former Chairman of ADPL and many others. They all asked for a lenient sentence be passed. In D24’s own mitigation letter, he promised he would be law-abiding and would not reoffend in future. He vowed to serve Hong Kong and the disadvantaged groups in future.
203. In our judgment, the role of D24 in the Scheme was that of an active participant. He agreed that he would veto the Budgets indiscriminately with others in pursuant to the Scheme if he were successfully elected into the LegCo.
204. Based on the role of D24 in the Scheme, 7 years (84 months) would be adopted as the starting point.
205. We gave a 3 months reduction for D24’s ignorance of the law and a further 2 months reduction for his past public service as a District Councillor.
