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HCCC58/2012
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 58 OF 2012
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| Before: |
The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary |
| Date: |
3 May 2012 at 10.49 am |
| Present: |
Miss Lam Tak-wing, Winnie, SPP, of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR |
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Mr Leung Hung-kuk, Michael, instructed by the Legal Aid Department, for the Accused |
| Offence: |
(1) Possession of a dangerous drug (管有危險藥物) |
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(2) Trafficking in dangerous drugs (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 on your behalf. You stand convicted on your own pleas of guilty of two charges. One is for possession of a dangerous drug and the other one is for trafficking in a dangerous drug.
The drugs involved in the possession charge are 2.12 grammes of cannabis and the drugs involved in the 2nd charge are 0.77 kilogramme of a mixture containing 0.39 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride and 0.13 kilogramme of monoacetylmorphine hydrochloride.
Under Charge 1, the possession charge, I adopt a starting point of 1½ months’ imprisonment. Under Charge 2, the trafficking charge, I adopt a starting point of 19 years’ imprisonment, enhance it by one year, making a total of 20 years’ imprisonment.
Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your pleas of guilty, and the fact that there are special circumstances on the papers which justify a lenient view being taken of the facts, I sentence you to 24 days’ imprisonment under Charge 1, and 11 years’ imprisonment under Charge 2 and I order the sentences under the two charges to be served concurrently with each other.
You will therefore go to prison for a total of 11 years.
Please refer to CACC190/2012 for the relevant appeal(s) to the Court of Appeal. |