Regina v Dennis Hong Wong [2003] NSWCCA 261

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : Regina v Dennis Hong Wong [2003] NSWCCA 261 HEARING DATE(S) : 3 September 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 3 September 2003

JUDGMENT OF : Meagher ACJ at 14; Sully J at 1; Kirby J at 15 DECISION : Leave to appeal granted; Appeal against sentence dismissed

Baker, unreported, 10/12/90, per Hope JA CASES CITED : Radford (2002) NSW CCA 122 per Smart AJ Totten (2003) NSW CCA 207 per James J PARTIES : Regina Dennis Hong Wong FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60041/01 COUNSEL : R. Sutherland SC - Crown T. Game SC - Appellant SOLICITORS : Commonwealth DPP - Crown Jeffreys & Associates - Appellant

LOWER COURT District Court JURISDICTION : LOWER COURT 00/11/0589 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Nash ADCJ JUDICIAL OFFICER :

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL 60041/01

MEAGHER JA SULLY J KIRBY J

3 September 2003 REGINA v DENNIS HONG WONG Judgment 1 SULLY J: The applicant, Mr Wong, stood trial in the District Court upon an indictment charging him with having been knowingly concerned in the importation into Australia of heroin. The particular importation was of a quantity weighing eighty-eight kilograms in impure form and sixty-four kilograms in pure form. As the learned primary Judge, Nash DCJ, correctly observed: "It goes without saying that this is an exceptionally large quantity of heroin to be brought here to be released on those members of our community who use that insidious drug." 2 The applicant, when arraigned pleaded not guilty. He was found guilty by the jury. He was subsequently sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years with a non-parole period of thirteen years.