Former union organiser jailed for selling drugs has made a bid for release from prison

A FORMER union organiser jailed for selling drugs to his mates in the building industry is seeking release from prison as the extent of the network running through the union can be revealed for the first time.

Web lift off the BLF website , Wayne Carter . uncredited web pic.

A FORMER construction union organiser jailed for eight years for selling drugs to his mates in the building industry has made a bid for release from prison as the extent of the network running through the union can be revealed for the first time.

Builders Labourers Federation organiser Wayne Joseph Carter, 36, formerly of Runcorn but in prison in Gatton, was due for parole in January 2015 after being jailed four years ago for trafficking ice, ecstasy, GHB and fantasy across Queensland as part of a massive syndicate.

Carter has applied to the Supreme Court to challenge the state parole board’s decision to cancel his parole.

“I am currently imprisoned after having my parole order cancelled,” he said in a statement filed in court.

The prosecution case against Carter in 2012 stated he sold 678 grams of ice worth $120,000 to shop steward Spike Sinclair in late 2009, and sold three “eightballs” of cocaine worth $3500 to “his boss” at the Gold Coast Hospital site, Denis Delic, from September to December 2009.

Delic, from Sydney, ran a massive steel-fixing business that was working on the hospital at the time.

Delic (now deceased) was also best mates with CFMEU NSW secretary Brian Parker, who was last year referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions over allegations of false or misleading evidence to the royal commission into union corruption.

There is no suggestion any drugs were ever given or sold to Parker.

The prosecution statement of facts, to which Carter pleaded guilty in 2012, says he sold “at least 1.14kg” of ice with a street value of about $200,000 to four major customers at “the height of” his trafficking, and distributed “hundreds of ecstasy tablets” in each deal.

He was trafficking drugs while serving parole for possession of ice and ecstasy in 2009.

Carter was busted as part of a massive Crime and Corruption Commission crackdown on kingpin Daniel Kalaja, who was sentenced to 14 years.

The prosecution statement of facts also shows that Carter sold large quantities of ice to his “north Queensland” dealer, Benjamin Morton from Townsville, who has also been sentenced for his role in the network.

Spike Sinclair was arrested in January 2010 when nearly 500g of ice was found in his car in Gympie.

Sinclair pleaded guilty to ice trafficking and was sentenced to seven years and nine months’ prison with parole from October 2012.

Carter kept his job with the BLF when charged in April 2010.

He told the court “the BLF agreed to support me through my criminal proceedings, provided I seek professional help with my drug problem”.

He joined the BLF in 2004 as an industrial relations officer and later was elected onto the BLF’s state executive board.

On March 24, Supreme Court Justice Glenn Martin adjourned Carter’s case against the parole board to a date to be fixed.