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1. The Appellant pleaded guilty before the magistrate to unlawful possession of dangerous drugs. He was stopped in the street, searched and found to be carrying one packet of dangerous drugs. He gave evidence that he was walking in the street when two police officers pushed him into a police car, took him to the police station - ostensibly for enquiries - and there planted on him a packet of dangerous drugs. That evidence was rejected by the learned magistrate, who believed that a packet of dang