19 Jul 2019
HKSAR v. DEWI ILMAYANTI AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2019] HKCA 794
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC370/2015
The judge erred by treating the three women as equally culpable and by adopting starting points not tied to the individual quantities pleaded; defendants must be sentenced according to the tariff for the quantity they pleaded to, but a proper uplift for the international element was justified; the applicants' post-arrest information was shown by fresh evidence to be specific and of practical use despite no prosecution outcome and therefore warranted an additional discount, resulting in substituted sentences of 13 years 4 months for the 1st applicant and 12 years 2 months for the 2nd applicant.