HKSAR v. Mnguni Bhekimpilo Yakhe Trevor

Case No.HCCC 150/2014

Court

High Court CFI

Date07 Aug 2014

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HCCC 150/2014

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 150 OF 2014

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	HKSAR
	v
	MNGUNI Bhekimpilo Yakhe Trevor
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Before:

The Honourable Mrs Justice V Bokhary

Date:

7 August 2014 at 10.02 am

Present:	Ms Grace Chan, SPP of the Department of Justice, for HKSAR
	Mr Geoffrey Nigel Booth, of Messrs Haldanes (assigned by DLA), for the accused

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 dangerous drugs. You have pleaded guilty at the Magistrates Court and you have been committed to this court for sentence.

The quantity of drugs involved is 1,656.62 grammes of a mixture containing 907.30 grammes of heroin hydrochloride and 155.01 grammes of 6‑monoacetylmorphine hydrochloride.

These drugs were imported into Hong Kong. All things considered, I adopt a starting point of 22 years, enhance it by 2 years, making a total of 24 years.

Having taken into account everything urged on your behalf, including your very early plea of guilty, which has saved the prosecution a lot of preparation time, and your willingness to cooperate with the authorities, I shall give you a discount of slightly more than one-third, thereby reducing the starting point to one of 15 years and 9 months’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced to 15 years and 9 months’ imprisonment.