Renee Louise Danjko jailed for breaching suspended sentence bond with drug offences

An Elizabeth Downs woman who dodged jail after trying to smuggle fantasy into Australia has run out of chances because she couldn’t kick her drug habit.

A woman who attempted to traffic a significant amount of fantasy into Australia was jailed after she couldn’t kick her nasty drug habit.

Renee Louise Danjko’s “plethora of excuses” finally caught up to her after she was given multiple chances by the court to rehabilitate herself.

The Adelaide District Court heard Danjko was arrested attempting to traffic a large commercial quantity of 1-4-butanediol, also known as fantasy, in September 2018.

“Your role in the attempted trafficking was to be receiving and storing nearly 12 litres of that drug that had been detected coming to Australia through customs,” Judge Simon Stretton said during sentencing.

Renee Danjko was jailed for breaching her suspended sentence bond. Picture: Facebook

“That is a very substantial quantity of such drug which would have caused significant damage in the Australian community if it had not been intercepted by police.

“At that time you had been engaged in selling or at least supplying illegal drugs, so involvement in that attempted commercial trafficking event was not isolated involvement in the illicit drug world.”

Danjko was sentenced in April 2019 to four years and six months jail, with a non-parole period of two years.

The sentence was suspended on a three-year good behaviour bond, with a condition she not take illicit drugs and follow directions from her corrections’ officer.

The court heard Danjko was caught drug driving on multiple occasions, including one instance where she had a child in the car.

She also continued to breach her bond after being given a second chance by another Judge, including testing positive for methamphetamine on numerous occasions and failing to engage in rehabilitation programs.

Danjko, of Elizabeth Downs, 42, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of breaching her bond.

Judge Stretton said Danjko had exhibited no motivation to change.

“Your plethora of excuses soon had a familiar and ultimately unconvincing ring to them,” he said.

“You have adopted a consistent strategy of, at the very last-minute, commencing contact with one or more rehabilitative agencies, then promising to the judge concerned that you would undertake such rehabilitation.

“It is clearly a strategy designed to avoid prison rather than reflective of any genuine intention to engage or rehabilitate yourself.”

Judge Stretton said Danjko had been given “every chance” by the court to prove she was making an effort, yet hadn’t completed a single rehabilitation course.

Judge Stretton revoked Danjko’s bond and ordered she serve the time in jail.

He also disqualified her from driving for three years.

“I am sorry you have to go back into custody but I hope this time will enable you to finally completely dry out from drug use and move forward positively in your life,” Judge Stretton said.