CRIMINAL CASE NO. 118 OF 2010
COURT: Wong Wai-ho, you stand convicted on your own pleas of guilty of two counts of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
The quantity of drugs involved under Count 1 is 223.80 grammes of a powder containing 181.55 grammes of ketamine.
The quantity of drugs involved under Count 2 is 951.86 grammes of a powder containing 536.62 grammes of ketamine.
You have previously been convicted of trafficking in dangerous drugs in 2008, which is an aggravating factor.
I consider that the appropriate starting point for Count 1 to be in the region of 8 years’ imprisonment, and for Count 2 to be in the region of 12 years' imprisonment.
Having taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, including your pleas of guilty, I shall give you the full one-third discount, reducing the sentence to one of 5 years and 4 months' imprisonment under Count 1, and one of 8 years' imprisonment under Count 2.
In all the circumstances and bearing in mind the principle of totality, I consider an overall sentence of 8½ years to be appropriate for all the drugs involved.
To achieve that overall sentence, I sentence you to 5 years and 4 months’ imprisonment under Count 1 and 8 years’ imprisonment under Count 2, and I order that 6 months of the sentence under Count 1 to be served consecutively with the 8 years' imprisonment which I have passed upon you under Count 2.
It is the same total as the one I would arrive at if the dangerous drugs in the two counts were the subject matter of a single count. If so, I would have taken a starting point of 12 years and 9 months and discounted by a third, to arrive at a term of 8½ years' imprisonment.
You will therefore go to prison for 8½ years.