HKSAR v. Songsaeng Uemchai

Case No.HCCC 447/2015

Court

High Court CFI

Date02 Mar 2016

Judge—

Case Document

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HCCC 447/2015

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 447 OF 2015

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	HKSAR
	v
	SONGSAENG Uemchai

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Before:

DHCJ V Bokhary

Date:

2 March 2016 at 10.06 am

Present:	Mr James H M McGowan, on fiat, for HKSAR
	Miss Liza Yip, instructed by Tangs Solicitors, assigned by DLA, for the accused

Offence:

Trafficking in a dangerous drug (販運危險藥物)

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Transcript of the Audio Recording
of the Sentence in the above Case

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COURT: As far as sentence is concerned, I have taken into account everything that has been urged on your behalf by your counsel.

You stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. The quantity of drugs involved is 70.11 grammes of a crystalline solid containing 69.16 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride.

Having taken into account everything urged on your behalf, I must say there is really no other real mitigation apart from your early plea of guilty.

As far as that quantity of drugs is concerned, all things considered I would adopt a starting point of 10½ years’ imprisonment.

As I have said, there is really no other real mitigation apart from early plea of guilty for which I shall give you the full one-third discount, thereby reducing the starting point to one of 7 years’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment.