Read the full judgment text of CACC 000313/2006 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 May 2007.
1. On 14 July 2006, the applicant, aged 18, pleaded guilty before Deputy High Court Judge Wright (as he then was) to the possession of a crystalline solid containing 0.54 of a gramme of methamphetamine hydrochloride (‘ice’) but she pleaded not guilty to a second count alleging the trafficking in a crystalline solid containing 28.60 grammes of ice. The jury convicted her on this count and she was sentenced to 7 years and 9 months’ imprisonment. The judge imposed a concurrent 8-month sentence on