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landmarks in the common law

R v Chan-Fook (1994)

Giles Bayliss outlines a case that illustrates the issue of what exactly constitutes ABH

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Sidney Martins was a French student attending a language course in London. He lodged in a house in Lewisham with Mrs Fox and her family. He was wrongly accused of the theft of an engagement ring belonging to Mrs Fox’s daughter Jackie and was confronted about the missing ring by Jackie’s fiancé, Mike Chan-Fook.

Chan-Fook hit Martins several times, dragged him upstairs and locked him in a bedroom. Martins tried to escape by climbing out of the window but fell, dislocating his pelvis and bruising and fracturing his wrist.

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