A DELIVERY worker was acquitted yesterday of conspiracy to maliciously wound Appeal Court Judge Mr Justice Litton because the evidence ''did not bear any relationship to the charge as laid''.
District Court Judge Caird found that the Crown had failed to establish the charge. Lee Wing-pui, 24, was acquitted after the finding was delivered.
He then dashed out of the dock and shook hands with his counsel, Lambert Lee. ''I am very happy. The matter had been hanging over my head for more than a year. The judge was fair and just,'' Mr Lee Wing-pui said.
He had denied a charge of conspiracy to maliciously wound Henry Litton, 57, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Judge Caird said there were two aspects of the evidence which concerned him.
One was that the charge specified that the person to wound was ''Henry Litton'', when evidence said that Mr Lee was asked to find someone to harm an unspecified lawyer in Central.