HKSAR v. Mpetula Suleiman Saidi

Case No.HCCC 333/2013
Court
High Court CFI
Date30 Sep 2013
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HCCC 333/2013

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 333 OF 2013

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  HKSAR  
  v  
  MPETULA Suleiman Saidi  

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Before: The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary
Date: 30 September 2013 at 10.18 am
Present: Ms Sabra Lo, SPP, of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
  Mr Keith Oderberg, instructed by Messrs John M Pickavant & 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: Accused, you stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug.

You pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court and you have been committed to this court for sentence. The quantity of drugs involved is 1.32 kilogrammes of a mixture containing 0.77 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride. These drugs were imported into Hong Kong and therefore call for enhancement.

All things considered, including your medical condition, I am prepared to be as lenient as I can and I adopt a starting point of 20 years’ imprisonment, enhance it by a year making a total of 21 years’ imprisonment as a starting point.

I have taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, there being no other real mitigation apart from your plea of guilty for which I shall give the full one-third discount, I reduce the sentence to one of 14 years’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment.

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