R v Kok Loong WONG [2012] NSWDC 182
Given the immense quantity and value of the drugs involved, the sophistication of the operation, and the offender's integral role in the enterprise, but balancing the early plea of guilty and limited assistance to authorities, the appropriate sentence is imprisonment for 18 years with a non-parole period of 12 years.
- Parties
- Crown: Regina; Offender: Kok Loong WONG
- Jurisdiction
- Australia
- Judgment Date
- 18 May 2012
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal / Sentence
- Outcome
- Convicted and sentenced
- Legal Topics
- Drug Offence, Possessing Commercial Quantity of Border Controlled Drug, Unlawful Importation, Sentencing
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Parties
Regina
Crown
Kok Loong WONG
Offender
Procedural Posture
Criminal / Sentence
Legal Issues
- 1 Appropriate sentence for possession of a commercial quantity of border controlled drug reasonably suspected of being unlawfully imported
- 2 Relevance of drug weight to objective seriousness
- 3 Discount for plea of guilty and assistance to authorities
Ratio Decidendi
Given the immense quantity and value of the drugs involved, the sophistication of the operation, and the offender's integral role in the enterprise, but balancing the early plea of guilty and limited assistance to authorities, the appropriate sentence is imprisonment for 18 years with a non-parole period of 12 years.
Court Disposition
Convicted and sentenced
Orders
- Convicted of possessing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug reasonably suspected of being imported unlawfully
- Imprisonment for 18 years commencing 21 December 2010, expiring 20 December 2028
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