Read the full judgment text of CACC 000594/1989 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 October 1990.
1. Chan Hing Hung ("the Defendant") pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking before Judge Evans sitting as a Deputy Judge in the High Court. The drugs involved were 4.663 kilogrammes of No. 3 heroin and 30.4 grammes of No. 4 heroin, which the judge was told would convert at the standard of purity then prevailing to 574 grammes of No. 3 heroin. He passed sentence on a constructive total of slightly more than 5.2 kilogrammes.