Mr Keith Oderberg, instructed by Messrs John M Pickavant & Co (assigned by DLA)
HCCC 333/2013
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO 333 OF 2013
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Transcript of the Audio Recording of the Sentence in the above Case
COURT: Accused, you stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
You pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court and you have been committed to this court for sentence. The quantity of drugs involved is 1.32 kilogrammes of a mixture containing 0.77 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride. These drugs were imported into Hong Kong and therefore call for enhancement. All things considered, including your medical condition, I am prepared to be as lenient as I can and I adopt a starting point of 20 years’ imprisonment, enhance it by a year making a total of 21 years’ imprisonment as a starting point. I have taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, there being no other real mitigation apart from your plea of guilty for which I shall give the full one-third discount, I reduce the sentence to one of 14 years’ imprisonment. You are therefore sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment.
You pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court and you have been committed to this court for sentence. The quantity of drugs involved is 1.32 kilogrammes of a mixture containing 0.77 kilogramme of heroin hydrochloride. These drugs were imported into Hong Kong and therefore call for enhancement.
All things considered, including your medical condition, I am prepared to be as lenient as I can and I adopt a starting point of 20 years’ imprisonment, enhance it by a year making a total of 21 years’ imprisonment as a starting point.
I have taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, there being no other real mitigation apart from your plea of guilty for which I shall give the full one-third discount, I reduce the sentence to one of 14 years’ imprisonment.
You are therefore sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment.