HKSAR v. Akinyi Grace Sylvia

Case No.HCCC 382/2013
Court
High Court CFI
Date07 Nov 2013
Judge
Case Document
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HCCC 382/2013

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 382 OF 2013

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  HKSAR  
  v  
  AKINYI Grace Sylvia  

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Before: The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary
Date: 7 November 2013 at 10.04 am
Present: Mr Harish Melwaney, SPP, of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
  Mr Newman Wong, instructed by Messrs F Zimmern & 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: You stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in dangerous drugs. You have pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court and you have been committed to the High Court for sentence.

The quantity of drugs involved is 0.62 kilogramme of a mixture containing 0.14 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride and 0.08 kilogramme of 6-monoacetylmorphine hydrochloride. The drugs were imported into Hong Kong from abroad and this therefore calls for enhancement.

All things considered, I adopt a starting point of 12½ years’ imprisonment, enhance it by 6 months, making a total of 13 years.

I have taken into account everything urged in your mitigation on your behalf, including your plea of guilty and, taking everything into account, all your circumstances, I am prepared to give you a discount which is slightly more than one-third, thereby reducing the starting point to 8½ years’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced to 8½ years’ imprisonment.