HKSAR v. AKINYI GRACE SYLVIA

HCCC 382/2013

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO 382 OF 2013

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Transcript of the Audio Recording
of the Sentence in the above Case

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COURT: 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 the High Court for sentence.

The quantity of drugs involved is 0.62 kilogramme of a mixture containing 0.14 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride and 0.08 kilogramme of 6-monoacetylmorphine hydrochloride. The drugs were imported into Hong Kong from abroad and this therefore calls for enhancement.

All things considered, I adopt a starting point of 12½ years’ imprisonment, enhance it by 6 months, making a total of 13 years.

I have taken into account everything urged in your mitigation on your behalf, including your plea of guilty and, taking everything into account, all your circumstances, I am prepared to give you a discount which is slightly more than one-third, thereby reducing the starting point to 8½ years’ imprisonment.

You are therefore sentenced to 8½ years’ imprisonment.