Read the full judgment text of HCCC 167/2016 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 8 June 2017.
1. The defendant has pleaded guilty to trafficking in a dangerous drug prior to trial. In the early hours on 18 September 2015, he was stopped by police officers in Tai Nam Street, Mongkok, Kowloon. The police observed him looking inside a light goods vehicle and behaving suspiciously. The police officers searched the defendant and found in his trouser pocket were five plastic bags consisting of a total of 101.96 g of a crystalline solid containing 98.8 g of methamphetamine hydrochloride, common