The Weekly Law Reports
[2009] 3 WLR 1
House of Lords
Regina
v
Islam
[2009] UKHL 30
2009 March 23;
June 10
June 10
Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Mance, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Crime— Sentence— Confiscation order— Defendant importing consignments of heroin into United Kingdom— Consignments seized by customs— Defendant pleading guilty to being knowingly concerned in fraudulent evasion of prohibition on importation of goods— Confiscation order made in sum including wholesale value of heroin on black market— Whether heroin to be treated as illegal goods having no “market value”—
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c 29), ss 79, 80