Sheree Hall sentenced to home detention for taking over jailed friend’s drug dealing business

A drug dealer who took over her jailed friend’s meth enterprise was told by a judge she hopes her legacy for her grandchildren is not following in her footsteps.

A grandmother who took over her jailed friend’s drug dealing business narrowly avoided being locked up herself.

But Sheree Nadine Hall’s freedom came with a 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.

During sentencing, the District 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.

Sheree Hall dodged jail for two counts of drug trafficking. Photo: Facebook

Sheree Hall dodged jail for two counts of drug trafficking. Photo: Facebook

“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.

Hall, of Peterhead pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking.

“You were not trafficking drugs to fund a lavish lifestyle, but to fund your habit,” Judge Fuller said.

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.

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.”

Judge Fuller sentenced Hall to three years and three months jail, with a non-parole period of two years and seven months.

“You only have to look at yourself to see what dreadful harm drugs do to people and the cycle of misery that they perpetuate,” she said.

She ordered Hall serve the sentence on home detention.