Chan Sek Keong J

(delivering the judgment of the court): The accused, Ang Soon Huat, was charged as follows:

You, Ang Soon Huat, on or about the 29th day of September 1986 between 10.50pm and 11.15pm, in Singapore, did traffic in a controlled drug specified in Class 'A' of the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap 185), to wit, by transporting one plastic packet of drug containing not less than 18.77g of diamorphine in motor car JBJ 3072 from Immigration Woodlands Checkpoint to the carpark at Woodlands Cinema without any authorization under the said Act or the regulations made thereunder and you have thereby committed an offence under section 5(a) and punishable under section 33 of the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Case for prosecution

The evidence adduced by the prosecution proves beyond any doubt that the accused did traffic in a quantity of diamorphine on the day and time in question. The accused was arrested near his car and a plastic packet was found in the glove compartment thereof as a result of a trap laid for him by the officers of the Central Narcotics Bureau. The entrapment was made possible when the accused tried to reach one Lim Lye Huat through Lim's pager when Lim wa