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HCCC96/2012
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 96 OF 2012
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The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary
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31 May 2012 at 9.46 am
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| Present:
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Ms Lilly Wong, PP, of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
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Mr Siu Chiu-kin Stanley, instructed by Messrs Alan Ho & Co (assigned by DLA), for the Accused
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| Offence:
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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: To Wai-ming, I have taken into account everything that has been urged on your behalf.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
The drugs involved are 263.68 grammes of a solid containing 209.4 grammes of cocaine.
For that amount of drugs I consider the appropriate starting point to be 12 years’ imprisonment. I enhance it by 6 months by virtue of the fact that the drugs have been imported into Hong Kong from across the border, thus making a total starting point of 12½ years’ imprisonment.
Having considered everything that has been urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty, I shall give you the full one-third discount, thereby reducing the sentence to one of 8 years and 4 months’ imprisonment.
You will therefore go to prison for 8 years and 4 months.
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