wished to write a message in the Message Board, he or she had to register, without any fee, as a member of the Website first. The Defendant’s case 18. The Defendant elects not to testify in the trial. I have reminded myself that it is the right of the Defendant to make such election, and no adverse inference should be made against the Defendant for his right to remain silent. 19. The Defendant is a man of good character, and in considering the verdict, the court needs to take into the two-limbs direction as laid down in the case of R v Vye [1993] 1 WLR 471. 20. The Defendant has called one witness, Madam Wong Wai Chong Joanna, to testify on his behalf. Madam Wong received education up to University level, and she has obtained a master degree in science of electronic commerce. She came to know the Defendant some time in 2003 and 2004 through chatting in the message board of the Website, as they shared a common interest of fetishism in women’s pantyhose. According to Madam Wong, she was a regular visitor of the different message boards at the Website. Although there might be some serious discussions depending on the nature of the topics, some of the other participants of the message boards just posted various topics at the Website as some kind of joke. She mentions about a previous topic about an invitation to participate in a bank robbery, and most of the viewers of the Website did not pay serious attention to such invitation. 7

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