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HCCC473/2011
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 473 OF 2011
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| Before: |
The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary |
| Date: |
13 August 2012 at 10.17 am |
| Present: |
Mr Peter Power, SADPP of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR |
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Ms Liza Yip, instructed by Messrs Ip, Kwan & Co (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: Lo Ka-ki, I have considered everything urged by counsel 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 1.02 kilogrammes of a powder containing 0.65 kilogramme of ketamine.
In my view, the appropriate starting point would be in the region of 12 years’ imprisonment.
Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, including the fact that you have pleaded guilty and the fact that you have actually offered to give evidence on behalf of the prosecution against Cheng Lai-mei in the case of HCCC 472 of 2011, I am prepared to give you a discount of more than one-third and reduce the sentence from that starting point of 12 years to one of 7 years’ imprisonment.
However, you were convicted in April last year for the offence of possession of dangerous drugs, and you were sentenced to 4 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 3 years - so you have committed the present offence during that period of suspension, and I will activate that term of suspended sentence of 4 months.
You are therefore sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment for the present offence, and I do activate the 4 months’ suspended sentence, thereby making a total of 7 years and 4 months’ imprisonment.
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