Read the full judgment text of CACC 000115/2008 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 December 2008.
1. On 10 March 2008, the applicant, aged 42, pleaded guilty to trafficking in a mixture containing 427.15 grammes of heroin hydrochloride when she appeared before Deputy High Court Judge Geiser. The judge, having adopted a starting point of 15½ years’ imprisonment as an appropriate level of sentence following a contested trial, gave the applicant a discount of one-third to reflect her plea. In the result, a sentence of 10 years and 4 months’ imprisonment was imposed against which the applicant