Penny Louise Conway: tow truck director driving with meth in her system, court hears

The director of a Gold Coast tow truck company that regularly hauls cars from traffic accidents, has been sentenced after driving with drugs in her system. Read what happened here.

Penny Louise Conway, 31, pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while a relevant drug was present in her saliva. Picture: Emily Walker

The director of a Gold Coast tow truck company has been sentenced after admitting to driving with meth in her system.

Penny Louise Conway, 31, pleaded guilty when she appeared in the Southport Magistrates Court, to driving a motor vehicle while a relevant drug was present in her saliva.

The court heard Conway was first noticed by police when they saw a black BMW reversing into a car wash bay in Bundall around 3.06am on November 18, last year.

The court heard methamphetamine was found in Conway’s saliva.

Conway, 31, pictured leaving Southport Courthouse. Picture: Emily Walker

Her defence lawyer Nicholas Tobin, told the court his client had broken up with her partner of 10 years three weeks prior to the offence and had gone out with a friend the night before she was caught by police.

He said Conway and her friend stayed in Broadbeach and had visited the casino,

Mr Tobin said Conway told him she had taken MDMA that night while out with her friend.

The court heard Conway had been out all night and woke up the next day at 8pm.

Mr Tobin said Conway’s friend asked if she could drive her car, and Conway had been reversing her friend’s car into a car wash parking bay at the time of the offence.

He told the court Conway, who is the director of a tow truck company, often drives the trucks when a driver calls in ill and she would no longer be able to do that after court today.

Magistrate Jane Bentley took into account Conway’s guilty plea and her history of no convictions.

Conway was fined $200 and was disqualified from holding a driver’s licence for one month.

No conviction was recorded.

Originally published as Penny Louise Conway: tow truck director driving with meth in her system, court hears