Read the full judgment text of CACC 000357/2008 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 June 2009.
1. On 24 October 2008 the applicant was sentenced by Deputy High Court Judge Longley to serve a period of 8 years imprisonment, having been convicted, after trial, of trafficking in 27.68 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride. She had been apprehended and searched on 23 February 2008: the narcotics were found on her person during the search. The jury disbelieved her version that the drugs were for her own consumption.