HKSAR v. Lai Chi Wah

Case No.HCCC 246/2013
Court
High Court CFI
Date17 Apr 2014
Judge
Case Document
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HCCC 246/2013

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 246 OF 2013

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  HKSAR  
  v  
  LAI Chi-wah  

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Before: DHCJ Tallentire
Date: 17 April 2014 at 10.16 am
Present: Mr Ian Polson, on fiat, for HKSAR
  Mr Henry Ma Ka‑fan, instructed by Yung, Yu, Yuen & Co, for the accused
Offence: (1) Trafficking in dangerous drugs (販運危險藥物)
  (2) 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: In respect of D2, you are convicted after trial of two offences of trafficking. The first is exactly the same charge as that faced by D1, to which he has pleaded guilty, that is, trafficking in 9.2 grammes of “Ice” and 1.11 grammes of ketamine. The 2nd offence is one that involves 8.39 grammes of “Ice”.

To arrive at the total period of imprisonment I do take the combined approach.

Again, there is little or no mitigation here. I accept that you did agree to a substantial part of the prosecution case. But nonetheless, you did pursue your plea of not guilty.

Therefore, on the 1st charge you will go to prison for 7 years; on the 2nd charge 6½ years, that is, 6 years and 6 months. In order to apply the combined approach, 1 year will be consecutive and 5½ years will be concurrent.

That is a total of 8 years’ imprisonment.