CRIMINAL CASE NO. 184 OF 2011
COURT: Kong Chi-chuen, you stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. You have pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court and have been committed to the High Court for sentence.
The quantity of drugs involved is 0.24 kilogramme of a powder containing 0.20 kilogramme of ketamine.
For that quantity of drugs, I adopt a starting point of 7½ years’ imprisonment.
I have taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf including your plea of guilty, and I shall give you the full one-third discount.
You are therefore sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment.
Chon Ka-lai, you stand convicted on your own pleas of guilty of two charges of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
The quantity of drugs involved in the 1st charge is 0.24 kilogramme of a powder containing 0.20 kilogramme of ketamine.
For that quantity of drugs, I adopt a starting point of 7½ years’ imprisonment.
The quantity of drugs in the 2nd charge involved is 0.99 kilogramme of a powder containing 0.76 kilogramme of ketamine.
For that quantity of drugs, I adopt a starting point of 12½ years’ imprisonment.
I have considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf including your pleas of guilty. I consider a discount reducing the sentence to one of 5 years’ imprisonment under the 1st charge and 8 years and 4 months under the 2nd charge to be appropriate.
In all the circumstances and bearing in mind the principle of totality, I consider an overall sentence of 9 years to be appropriate.
To achieve that overall, I sentence you to 5 years under the 1st charge and 8 years and 4 months under the 2nd charge, and I order that 4 years out of the 8 years and 4 months under the 2nd charge to be served consecutively with the 5 years’ imprisonment which I have passed on you under the 1st charge.
You will therefore go to prison for a total of 9 years’ imprisonment.