Read the full judgment text of CACC 000477/2001 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 April 2002.
1. This is an application for leave to appeal against sentence. The Applicant appeared before Beeson J on 3 October 2001, having pleaded guilty on 24 August 2001 to trafficking in 2.45 kilogrammes of a crystalline solid containing 2.36 kilogrammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride, popularly known as 'ice'. He had been arrested at Hong Kong Airport when about to board a flight for Kota Kinabalu. He is a Malaysian by nationality and had arrived in Hong Kong only 4 days earlier. The drug was concea