Sheree Hall jailed after breaching home detention order for drug trafficking

A drug dealer who took over her jailed friend’s meth enterprise is also now behind bars after she cut off her home detention bracelet and went on the run.

A grandmother who took over her jailed friend’s drug dealing business has now also found herself behind bars after she fled interstate.

Sheree Nadine Hall ignored the stern warning from a judge who said if she didn’t change her ways, she’d cycle in and out of jail until she died.

Hall was sentenced in January to home detention after pleading guilty to two counts of drug trafficking.

Last week, the District Court heard Hall removed her home detention bracelet in February and remained at large until April 30.

“It is also alleged that you travelled interstate and that you have been charged with offences in Queensland,” Judge Michelle Sutcliffe said.

Sheree Hall pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking. Photo: Facebook

Sheree Hall breached her home detention order by cutting off her home detention bracelet. Photo: Facebook

The court heard Hall’s daughter came to stay with her and needed urgent help in relation to domestic violence matters.

“She wished to travel to Queensland and you did not want her to travel on her own,” Judge Sutcliffe said.

During sentencing, the court heard Hall, 50, was detected by police after her car hit a tree at Largs Bay on June 17, 2019.

After she was hospitalised, a plastic bag was found inside her bra which contained 8.26g of methamphetamine.

Police then searched a Peterhead property a few days later and found 9.73g of methamphetamine, $1300, two mobile phones, tick lists and digital scales.

“Text messages on one of the mobile phones revealed that you had taken over the use of the phone from a friend of yours, Helen, when she went to jail,” Judge Joana Fuller said.

She was a drug dealer and when she went to jail you took over her business.”

The methamphetamine was valued at up to $9000.

The court heard Hall began using drugs from a young age and attempted rehabilitation, but had been unable to beat her addiction.

The court heard Hall had previously owned a delicatessen and pie cart business in Port Pirie, which she hoped to continue after release from custody.

At the time of sentencing, Judge Fuller had stern words for Hall, saying she no longer had youth on her side.

“If you repeat the mistakes of your past and return to gambling and drugs you can expect to … cycle in and out of jail until you burn out or you die,” she said.

“At best, your legacy to your children and grandchildren will be not to follow in your footsteps.

“At worst, you may lose them entirely.”

Last week, Judge Sutcliffe revoked the home detention order and ordered Hall serve the remaining sentence of three years and one month in jail, with a non-parole period of two years and five months.

“Your conduct reflects a wilful disregard of your conditions,” she said.