The cumulative weight of circumstantial evidence — including an employer-funded trip with last-minute accommodation changes, vague claims about contacts, assertion of knowledge of bag contents combined with protest about cutting the lining, and assorted clothing sizes — was sufficient to exclude any reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence in a drug importation case. A sentence of 10 years imprisonment with a five-year non-parole period for importing approximately twice the commercial quantity of methamphetamine (1454 grams pure), where the offender was a courier who did not plead guilty, was within range.
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