A MAN jailed for a $167 million security van robbery had his conviction quashed yesterday.
The Court of Appeal ruled that the conviction of Cheung Tsz-keung could not stand because the trial judge had misdirected the jury on identification.
The Appeal Court felt it was a proper case for a retrial.
Cheung, however, failed to persuade the court to overturn his conviction for trying to bribe a policeman.
But as he had already completed the three-year jail term imposed for the charge, the court granted bail, pending retrial for robbery, in the sum of $500,000 and a surety of $250,000.
Cheung, 42, had been found guilty in December 1992 after a trial before Deputy High Court Judge Sharwood, who sentenced him to 18 years' jail for the holdup.