"Ice" not a nice vice

I READ with disgust of the lenient sentencing of Robert Ewin Chin by Justice Dean Mildren in the NT Supreme Court earlier this month.

Chin was found with 107.8g of “ice”, being a commercial amount of the most pure form of amphetamine. Due to the amount, the judge stated that Chin is a drug supplier. Given the amount there is no doubt of that.

Amphetamine is the most destructive drug in our society causing misery, destruction and crime.

Chin cried “poor bugger me I’m an addict” and has to serve just 28 days’ jail.

Give me a break.

Is that what the peddlers of death receive?

I pray the Director of Public Prosecutions appeals this lenient sentence. The community deserves better than that.

Name and address withheld by request

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Pubdate: 28th February 2005
Source: Northern Territory News
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