5 On 23 October 1997 the applicant flew from Bangkok to Perth. Upon his arrival at the Perth International Airport customs officers searched his baggage. They found banknotes of $200 in Australian currency and $200 in US currency. On the afternoon of 24 October the applicant checked into a motel in Osborne Park, using a false name. On 25 October he purchased Australian travellers cheques worth $6,250 from an American Express office in Hay Street Perth. On 27 October he purchased travellers cheques to a value of US $6,100 from a bank in St George's Terrace, Perth and transferred $8,000 telegraphically from another bank in St George's Terrace to a man in Thailand by a way of a bank in Bangkok. Then he went to yet a third bank in St George's Terrace and converted an amount of $8,900 in $50 notes to travellers cheques. On that same evening police officers went to his room at the motel, forced their way in and found him in the bathroom area near the toilet bowl. There were 16 small white pellets on the floor and the remains of a further six in the toilet bowl. The pellets later were found to comprise 61.6 grams of heroin, between 57 and 75 per cent pure. In the room there were also a roll of cling wrap, a set of electronic scales, $3,760.25 in cash, travellers cheques to a value of $12,200 and further travellers cheques to a value of US $6,100. At about 1.25 am on 28 October 1997 at Royal Perth Hospital x-ray examination showed that the applicant was carrying two cylindrical objects within his body. The objects were recovered later and were found to contain 76 grams of heroin, 72.5 per cent pure. The total quantity of pure heroin found in the motel room and recovered from the applicant's body amounted to a little more than 98 grams.