Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000625/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 July 1996.
1. The appellant pleaded guilty to one count of possession of dangerous drugs. He was stopped and searched by police officers in Tai Hang Tung Estate. In the search he was found to have a plastic bag in his pocket which contained 8.33 grammes of a mixture containing traces of heroin hydrochloride. He admitted to the police that he had that for his own consumption. The appellant was 40 years of age. He was a cleaning worker earning $5,000 per month. He was single and he said he had to pay rent an