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HCCC81/2012
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 81 OF 2012
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HKSAR |
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Chung Man-ho, Johnny |
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| Before: |
The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary |
| Date: |
30 April 2012 at 9.44 am |
| Present: |
Miss Winnie Lam, SPP, of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
Mr So Kai-ming Selwyn, instructed by Messrs Chow, Griffiths & Chan (assigned by DLA), for the Accused |
| Offence: |
Trafficking in a dangerous drug (販運危險藥物) |
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Transcript of the Audio Recording
of the Sentence in the above Case
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COURT: Accused, I have taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. The drugs involved are 0.99 kilogrammes of a crystalline solid containing 0.94 kilogrammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride.
Your counsel has urged me to adopt a starting point of 19½ years’ imprisonment. I agree that is an appropriate starting point which I shall adopt in this case.
Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty, I shall give
you the usual one-third discount, thereby reducing the sentence to one of 13 years’ imprisonment.
You will therefore go to prison for 13 years.
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