CRIMINAL DIVISION
ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT CAMBRIDGE
HHJ BISHOP 35NT1217020
Strand London WC2A 2LL |
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B e f o r e :
(LORD JUSTICE HOLROYDE)
MR JUSTICE WALL
MR JUSTICE SHELDON
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JADE MELINA RAHMAN |
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Lower Ground, 46 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JE
Tel No: 020 7404 1400; Email: rcj@epiqglobal.co.uk (Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)
MR B DOUGLAS-JONES KC & MR G FLEMING appeared on behalf of the Crown.
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Crown Copyright ©
THE VICE-PRESIDENT:
"Applicant: 'What's the lowest you sell a box for with you making profit? Dad thinks he can push a box with cash not tick.'
HASANI: 'I give him 4.5 because the box can go 5.8.'
Applicant: 'I think he will have one next week. I've said 4.8.'
HASANI: 'He want to sell it 4.8?'
Applicant: 'I've told him a box is 4.8. He wants to sell it for bits his mate sells so he can get rid of it quickly.'
HASANI: 'With cash or tick?'
Applicant: 'Cash.'
HASANI: 'OK. Say nothing.'
Applicant: 'I'm the boss baby.'
HASANI: 'U are the boss.'"
"Applicant: 'I've booked a taxi, Paula wants to come back to ours for a min to get her some coke can you sort anything? She will pay and go lol.'
HASANI: '£1000 I don't do small lol.'
Applicant: 'Do small for tonight babes.'
HASANI: 'I don't think I can lol.'
Applicant: 'I'm bringing her home anyway you can deal with her wanting 50 quids worth.'
HASANI: 'Good luck.'
Applicant: 'She said if she likes it she will buy bigger bits from now on.'
HASANI: 'Good luck.'"
In relation to that exchange it was common ground that "coke" was a reference to cocaine.
"Defence for slavery or trafficking victims who commit an offence
(1)A person is not guilty of an offence if—
(a)the person is aged 18 or over when the person does the act which constitutes the offence
(b)the person does that act because the person is compelled to do it
(c)the compulsion is attributable to slavery or to relevant exploitation, and
(d)a reasonable person in the same situation as the person and having the person's relevant characteristics would have no realistic alternative to doing that act."
"(1)Every court—
(a)must, in sentencing an offender, follow any sentencing guidelines which are relevant to the offender's case, and
(b)must, in exercising any other function relating to the sentencing of offenders, follow any sentencing guidelines which are relevant to the exercise of the function
unless the court is satisfied that it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so."