Read the full judgment text of CACC 000372/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 June 1999.
1. On 2nd July 1998, these applicants (D1 and D2) were convicted by a jury of trafficking in dangerous drugs and each was sentenced by Deputy Judge Lugar-Mawson (as then he was) to twenty one years' imprisonment. D1 and D2 faced separate counts of trafficking in heroin on 14th January 1997 at Kai Tak Airport. The quantities of narcotic content in the mixtures in counts 1 and 2 against D1 and D2 were just under and just over 4 kilogrammes respectively. Each now seeks leave to appeal against convi