Boy Phiri was caught with 14.85 kg of dagga worth about E700 and fined E300, with two thirds suspended — an effective E100. On review the Chief Justice replaced the fine with three years in prison, eighteen months suspended, and laid down sentencing bands: personal-use amounts normally mean a fine for a first offender, wholesale suppliers face at or near the maximum even the first time, and even a social supplier handing out joints may earn a non-custodial sentence.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Eswatini here.
References
- High Court of Swaziland — King v Phiri, SZHC 13, judgment of 19 November 1986Section 8(1) quotation, the 1976 penalty change, sentencing bands and the substituted sentence
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