Mr Lo Chi-lam, Caesar, instructed by the Legal Aid Department
HCCC 183/2011
HCCC183/2011
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CRIMINAL CASE NO. 183 OF 2011
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Transcript of the Audio Recording of the Sentence in the above Case
COURT: Chow Chor-shing, you stand convicted of one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug. You have pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court and have been committed to the High Court for sentence.
The quantity of drugs involved is 13.22 grammes of a crystalline solid and 0.22 gramme of a powder containing 12.99 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride, and 0.14 gramme of a powder containing 0.05 gramme of ketamine. For that quantity of drugs, I adopt a starting point of 7 years. I have taken into account everything urged on your behalf by your counsel. There is really no real mitigation apart from your early plea of guilty, for which I shall give you the full one-third discount, reducing the starting point to one of 4 years and 8 months. You are therefore sentenced to 4 years and 8 months’ imprisonment.
The quantity of drugs involved is 13.22 grammes of a crystalline solid and 0.22 gramme of a powder containing 12.99 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride, and 0.14 gramme of a powder containing 0.05 gramme of ketamine.
For that quantity of drugs, I adopt a starting point of 7 years.
I have taken into account everything urged on your behalf by your counsel. There is really no real mitigation apart from your early plea of guilty, for which I shall give you the full one-third discount, reducing the starting point to one of 4 years and 8 months.
You are therefore sentenced to 4 years and 8 months’ imprisonment.