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ROYAL COURT
(Samedi Division)
30 April 1999
Before: Sir Philip Bailhache Bailiff and
Jurats Myles Potter
AG -v- Michael Mario Rossel
1 count of: being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of the prohibition on the importation of a controlled drug., contrary to Article 77(b) of the Customs & Excise (General Provisions) (Jersey) Law 1972.
Count 1: Cannabis resin.
Age: 39
Plea: Guilty
Details of Offence:
Arrested at the airport with 3.8kgs of cannabis resin (£16,000 - £22,000) taped to his body. He was delivering it from Thailand for a fee of 4,000 US dollars. Had flown from Thailand via Zurich. German national, resident in Thailand.
Details of Mitigation:
Plea: needed the money for health treatment, business has suffered following his stroke 2 years earlier, other matters.
Previous Convictions: Nil.
Conclusions: 2 years' imprisonment.
Sentence & Observations of Court: Conclusions granted.
C E Whelan Esq Crown Advocate
Advocate M Guillaume for the accused
JUDGMENT
THE BAILIFF: Rossel, the Court has given very careful consideration to all the mitigation which is available in this case, but at the end of the day - as we are sure you know - this was a quite deliberate act of drug trafficking, whereby you carried some £20,000 worth of cannabis, as the Crown Advocate has said, halfway across the world for delivery in Jersey.
We think the conclusions are right, and you are accordingly sentenced on count 1 to two years' imprisonment. We order the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs.
Authorities
A.G -v- Shoesmith (19th March, 1999) Jersey Unreported.
Campbell, Molloy, and MacKenzie -v- A.G. (1995) JLR 136 CofA.