Jane Margaret Spiers, daughter of former drug fugitive Reg Spiers, pleads guilty to drug driving
The daughter of champion javelin thrower and former international drug fugitive Reg Spiers – who once posted himself in a box from London to Adelaide – is back in court.
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A former drug dealer and daughter of athlete and international fugitive Reg Spiers has been fined for drug driving.
Jane Margaret Spiers, 54, of Taperoo, has pleaded guilty in Port Adelaide Magistrates Court to one count of drug driving.
Spiers was tested for drugs by police on Francis Street, Gillman, on January 17, and found to have cannabis and methamphetamine in her system.
Magistrate Paul Foley fined her $1410.
She has been disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Spiers was jailed for six years in 2011 for manufacturing and selling a controlled drug.
She allowed her then-partner to turn her Housing Trust home into a clandestine drug lab in 2009, and was given access to the drugs herself.
At the time, then-judge Mark Griffin said the lab had the potential to produce 1.2kg worth of drugs.
She was also jailed for 12 years in 1993 for the sale and possession of heroin.
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Her father, Reg – a former Commonwealth Games javelin thrower – fled Adelaide in 1981 after being charged with conspiracy to import $1.2 million of cocaine.
He was arrested in Sri Lanka in 1984 on more drugs charges and put on death row there.
He later served five years in Yatala Jail.
Reg Spiers is also known for freighting himself from England to Australia in a wooden box in the 1960s.
Mr Spiers was stranded in London in the mid-1960s with no money, and, desperate to get home, posted himself in crate.
To avoid suspicion, the crate was labelled as containing paint, with the freight costs to be paid for in Australia.
