Read the full judgment text of CACC 000679/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 April 1996.
1. The applicant who was only 16 years old at the time of his offence seeks leave to appeal against the sentence of five years' imprisonment imposed upon him for trafficking in dangerous drugs. He was caught in a stop and search exercise by the police and pleaded guilty to the offence. The amount of dangerous drugs involved in 327 grams of a mixture containing 52.84 grams of heroin.