HKSAR v. KANFUNE BASHIRI RAJABU

HCCC366/2011

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO. 366 OF 2011

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

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COURT: I have to sentence you for trafficking in dangerous drugs. The drug in question was heroin and you were trafficking in 620 grammes of it. You brought it through the airport secreted in your body.

It will have been explained to you that sentencing for drug trafficking depends on guidelines and you fall into the category that runs from 600 grammes to 1,200 grammes attracting a starting point of 20 to 23 years’ imprisonment.

I shall put you at 620 grammes at the bottom end of that bracket. You will have one-third discount off the eventual sentence for your plea of guilty but I do have to increase the sentence to some extent because of the international element involved. I shall increase the starting point of the sentence by one year.

Accordingly, the starting point I take is 21 years. I reduce that by one-third, the sentence is therefore 14 years’ imprisonment.

That is in fact the figure your counsel put before me because he recognises that is the least sentence I can pass. That was realistic of him and I have taken into account your early plea and your attitude to this. I am not going to give you a separate discount for information given but I have taken that into account in passing the least sentence I possibly can.