Mr John P McNamara, instructed by Simon Si & Co, assigned by DLA
HCCC 331/2013
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO 331 OF 2013
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Transcript of the Audio Recording of the Sentence in the above Case
COURT: The defendant pleaded guilty in Eastern Magistracy to an offence of trafficking in 480 grammes of heroin. She has been committed to this court for sentence.
On 10 March of this year, the defendant, a 33-year-old Tanzanian national, arrived at Hong Kong International Airport on a flight from Kenya. She had concealed within her body 93 packets containing in total the charged drugs. The starting point of sentence I take for that quantity of heroin is 15 years’ imprisonment. I enhance that to a starting point of 16 years’ imprisonment to reflect the international element of the offence. There is no substantive mitigation other than the defendant’s plea of guilty and, to reflect that, I reduce her sentence to one of 10 years 8 months’ imprisonment.
On 10 March of this year, the defendant, a 33-year-old Tanzanian national, arrived at Hong Kong International Airport on a flight from Kenya. She had concealed within her body 93 packets containing in total the charged drugs.
The starting point of sentence I take for that quantity of heroin is 15 years’ imprisonment. I enhance that to a starting point of 16 years’ imprisonment to reflect the international element of the offence.
There is no substantive mitigation other than the defendant’s plea of guilty and, to reflect that, I reduce her sentence to one of 10 years 8 months’ imprisonment.