Read the full judgment text of CACC 000128/2009 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 September 2009.
1. On 6 July 2008, the applicant (Mary Adhiambo Opollo), a Kenyan female, arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport from Calcutta via Bangkok. She was intercepted by customs officers and was subsequently found to have carried, inside her body, 99 pellets of heroin hydrochloride mixture. The total weight of the mixture was 1,113.93 grammes containing 583.65 grammes of heroin hydrochloride.