14. After that, the Defendant added the following sentence to his message: “甘多人搞一個女仔重邊有得走！好 high 啊~” which can be translated as follows: “The girl is handled by so many people and there’s no way (for her) to escape! (It feels) so high.” 15. There were 26 responses to the Second Message, with some of the respondents having the same code-names as those who responded to the First Message. Amongst those responses, two respondents with the code-names “Ss” and “Whiteboy” expressed interest to join the gang rape, whilst other respondents with the code-names “旺角豪哥” (translated as “Mongkok Ho Koh”), “阿熙” (translated as “Ah Hey”) and “EEG” admired the idea of the Defendant. 16. The police traced the IP address of the postings to the home address of the Defendant, and the latter was arrested on 24 August 2005. The Defendant’s residence was occupied by the Defendant and his wife only. When the Defendant was arrested, he admitted that he was the one who posted the First and the Second Messages (“the Messages”) and claimed that he was doing it as a joke. He made the same admission in the subsequent video-recorded interview. 17. Any members of the public could look at the messages in the said “GOSSIP” Message Board through the internet. However, if one 6