Mr Siu Chiu-kin Stanley, instructed by Messrs Alan Ho & Co (assigned by DLA)
HCCC 96/2012
HCCC96/2012
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 96 OF 2012
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Transcript of the Audio Recording of the Sentence in the above Case
COURT: To Wai-ming, I have taken into account everything that has been urged on your behalf.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug. The drugs involved are 263.68 grammes of a solid containing 209.4 grammes of cocaine. For that amount of drugs I consider the appropriate starting point to be 12 years’ imprisonment. I enhance it by 6 months by virtue of the fact that the drugs have been imported into Hong Kong from across the border, thus making a total starting point of 12½ years’ imprisonment. Having considered everything that has been urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty, I shall give you the full one-third discount, thereby reducing the sentence to one of 8 years and 4 months’ imprisonment. You will therefore go to prison for 8 years and 4 months.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
The drugs involved are 263.68 grammes of a solid containing 209.4 grammes of cocaine.
For that amount of drugs I consider the appropriate starting point to be 12 years’ imprisonment. I enhance it by 6 months by virtue of the fact that the drugs have been imported into Hong Kong from across the border, thus making a total starting point of 12½ years’ imprisonment.
Having considered everything that has been urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty, I shall give you the full one-third discount, thereby reducing the sentence to one of 8 years and 4 months’ imprisonment.
You will therefore go to prison for 8 years and 4 months.