HKSAR v. Juma Jumamussa

Case No.HCCC 78/2013
Court
High Court CFI
Date22 Jul 2013
Judge
Case Document
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HCCC 78/2013

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 78 OF 2013

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  HKSAR  
  v  
  Juma JumaMussa  
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Before: The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary
Date: 22 July 2013 at 9.54 am
Present: Mr Harish Melwaney, SPP, of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
  Mr Richard Donald, instructed by the Legal Aid Department, for the defendant
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: You stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. You have pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court and you have been committed to this court for sentence.

The quantity of drugs involved is 1,654.60 grammes of a mixture containing 1,130.09 grammes of heroin hydrochloride and 171.62 grammes of 6-monoacetylmorphine hydrochloride. These drugs were imported into Hong Kong and, therefore, calls for enhancements.

I have listened to all the mitigation advanced on your behalf. All things considered, I adopt a starting point of 23 years, enhance it by 2 years, making a total of 25 years.

Having taken everything that has been urged on your behalf in mitigation, I am prepared to give you a slightly more than one-third discount for your plea of guilty and for your cooperation with the police, thereby reducing the starting point to one of 16 and a half years’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced 16 and a half years’ imprisonment.