Horse trainer Brian Kan receives additional nine-month jail term
PUBLISHED : Friday, 18 October, 2013, 5:47pm
UPDATED : Friday, 18 October, 2013, 6:45pm
Lai Ying-kit [email protected]
Horse trainer Brian Kan Ping-chee arrives at the High Court in Admiralty. Photo: Nora Tam
Former champion racehorse trainer Brian Kan Ping-chee was ordered to serve an additional nine-month jail term for his conviction for election corruption in 2011 after the appeal court increased the original term.
The Court of Appeal increased Kan’s original 14-week term to 12 months after ruling in favour of an appeal by the Department of Justice, which had argued that the original sentence was too lenient.
Kan, 75, has to return to jail to serve the remaining nine months immediately. He completed the 14-week term in January.
He was sentenced to jail by a magistrate in 2011 after being convicted of engaging in corrupt conduct during an election.
He was found to have offered HK$130,000 to village representative Liu Fu-sau in February that year to vote for him in the Sheung Shui District Rural Committee executive committee ballot the following month.
Kan went to Britain in his 20s and joined the Jockey Club after returning to Hong Kong in 1969. He went on to become a champion trainer with five Hong Kong Derby winners.
Outspoken on social and political issues, he opposed efforts to grant inheritance rights to women in the New Territories in the 1990s. He was also against setting up a bird conservation area in the Long Valley wetlands in Sheung Shui in 2001.
