17 Dec 2021
R v HAN ZHANG [2021] NZHC 3583
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 3583
- Court
- High Court
Court fixed a starting point of 16 years' imprisonment for importation of 21.195 kg methamphetamine (mid-to-low end of 'significant' role), applied a two-year uplift for related customs fraud and class B offending to reach 18 years, then applied cumulative mitigation of 40% (20% guilty plea, 10% good character/absence of prior convictions, 5% rehabilitation prospects, 5% foreign-national hardship) resulting in an end sentence of 11 years' imprisonment; concurrent sentences imposed for other counts, forfeiture under Misuse of Drugs Act s32 ordered, and no minimum period of imprisonment was imp…