HKSAR v. Natukunda Aishah

Case No.HCCC 262/2013
Court
High Court CFI
Date27 Jan 2014
Judge
Case Document
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HCCC 262/2013

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 262 OF 2013

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  HKSAR  
  v  
  NATUKUNDA Aishah  
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Before: The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary
Date: 27 January 2014 at 10.58 am
Present: Mr Henry Ma,counsel-on-fiat, instructed by the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
  Mr Michael Arthur, instructed by Messrs Tang Tso & Lau (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: The accused, you have pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking in dangerous drugs. The quantity of drugs involved is 1,538.06 grammes of a mixture containing 528.14 grammes of heroin hydrochloride.

These drugs were imported into Hong Kong and therefore calls for enhancement. All things considered, I adopt a starting point of 18 and a half years’ imprisonment, enhance it by one year, totalling 19 and a half years.

Having taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, there is really no other real mitigation apart from your early plea of guilty, for which I shall give you the full one-third discount; reducing the starting point to one of 13 years’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment.