A 29-year-old man has been jailed six years and eight months for drug trafficking by the Court of the First Instance.

He was sentenced today after two Singaporean men were jailed five years and four months yesterday in the same case.

Police intercepted the duo, aged 43 and 45, on April 27 aboard a ferry bound for Shekou. They found 4kgs of Ketamine in eight packets in their possession.

The 29-year-old was arrested in a Yau Ma Tei hotel room just minutes after the Singaporeans were caught. Officers found another 4kgs of Ketamine worth $944,000 in the room.

Police said he was a drug courier-controller who received drugs in parcels from Malaysia for forwarding to the Mainland. He pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking.