Singapore: Heroin trafficker's consumption defence rejected, death sentence upheld

SINGAPORE, July 8 (The Straits Times/ANN): A man facing a capital charge for trafficking 27 packets of heroin claimed in his defence that the drugs in the heaviest packet were for his personal consumption.

If Chong Hoon Cheong had succeeded in his consumption defence, he would have avoided the gallows, as the amount of heroin in the other packets was under the 15g legal threshold for the imposition of the mandatory death penalty.