Mr Duncan Percy, instructed by Messrs Martin Law & Co
HCCC 461/2011
HCCC461/2011
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 461 OF 2011
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COURT: Accused, I have taken into account everything that has been very ably urged on your behalf.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug involving 0.99 kilogramme of a powder containing 0.71 kilogramme of ketamine. In all the circumstances I will adopt the starting point urged by your counsel, that is 12 years. Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty and your cooperation with the police, I shall give you the full one- third discount thereby reducing your sentence from that starting point to one of 8 years’ imprisonment. You will therefore go to prison for 8 years.
You stand convicted on your own plea of guilty of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug involving 0.99 kilogramme of a powder containing 0.71 kilogramme of ketamine.
In all the circumstances I will adopt the starting point urged by your counsel, that is 12 years.
Having considered everything urged in mitigation on your behalf, particularly your early plea of guilty and your cooperation with the police, I shall give you the full one-
third discount thereby reducing your sentence from that starting point to one of 8 years’ imprisonment.
You will therefore go to prison for 8 years.