Read the full judgment text of DCCC 000068/2009 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 27 February 2009.
1. It is a sad day to have to sentence a young man of 18 to a long term of imprisonment. Drug traffickers often make use of young people and sometimes old people to traffic drugs. The defendant was 17 at the time of the offence. It is not an extremely young age. The defendant knew what he was up to, and he has to bear the full legal consequences of his act.