Ms Sabra Lo, SPP of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
Mr Andrew Raffell, instructed by Messrs Reimer & Partners (assigned by DLA), for the defendant
Offence:
Trafficking in dangerous drugs (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, I have taken into account everything urged on your behalf. 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 the High Court for sentence.
The quantity of drugs involved is 0.95 kilogramme of a mixture containing 0.39 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride and 0.14 kilogramme of 6-monoacetylmorphine hydrochloride. These drugs were imported into Hong Kong and therefore calls for enhancement.
All things considered, I adopt a starting point of 19 years’ imprisonment, enhance it by 1 year, making a total of 20 years as the starting point.
Having taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, I consider that there is really no real mitigation, apart from your plea of guilty for which I shall give you the full one-third discount, thereby reducing the starting point to one of 13 years and 4 months’ imprisonment.
You are therefore sentenced to 13 years and 4 months’ imprisonment.
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