Mr So Kai-ming Selwyn, instructed by Messrs Chow, Griffiths & Chan (assigned by DLA)
HCCC 81/2012
HCCC81/2012
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 81 OF 2012
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COURT: Accused, I have taken into account everything urged in mitigation on your behalf.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. The drugs involved are 0.99 kilogrammes of a crystalline solid containing 0.94 kilogrammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride. Your counsel has urged me to adopt a starting point of 19½ years’ imprisonment. I agree that is an appropriate starting point which I shall adopt in this case. Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty, I shall give you the usual one-third discount, thereby reducing the sentence to one of 13 years’ imprisonment. You will therefore go to prison for 13 years.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. The drugs involved are 0.99 kilogrammes of a crystalline solid containing 0.94 kilogrammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride.
Your counsel has urged me to adopt a starting point of 19½ years’ imprisonment. I agree that is an appropriate starting point which I shall adopt in this case.
Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty, I shall give
you the usual one-third discount, thereby reducing the sentence to one of 13 years’ imprisonment.
You will therefore go to prison for 13 years.