Read the full judgment text of DCCC 1118/2022 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 20 December 2023.
1. In this case, defendant pleaded guilty to, and is convicted of, one count of “Trafficking in Dangerous Drugs”. According to the prosecution’s Summary of Facts (which the defendant admitted in court), the defendant was intercepted sometime in the early hours on the 9 th day of June by the police in Tung Choi Street. During the attempt to stop the defendant, the latter threw a packet away. It was revealed subsequently that the packet contained a total of 11.1 grammes of heroin hydrochloride.