Read the full judgment text of CACC 000017/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 August 2006.
1. On 22 December 2004, the Applicant was convicted of two counts of trafficking in dangerous drugs, one on his plea, the other after trial by jury before Gall J. The Applicant had pleaded guilty to trafficking in 6.52 kilogrammes of cannabis. The other count related to 1.03 kilogrammes of a mixture containing 860 grammes of heroin. The same day, the Judge sentenced the Applicant to 16 months’ imprisonment for the cannabis charge and 20 years’ imprisonment for the heroin trafficking charge, b