Alena Eve Pyke pleads guilty to dealing drugs

Just days after giving birth, a Gympie mother is behind bars for dealing drugs to undercover cops.

Gympie mother Alena Eve Pyke has pleaded guilty from Brisbane Womens Correctional Centre only days after giving birth to her youngest child yby caeaserian while in custody. Pic David Sproule

A Gympie mother of five and drug dealer will remain behind bars until mid-December after pleading guilty in court only six days after giving birth to her youngest child.

Alena Eve Pyke appeared in Gympie District Court by video link from Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre.

The 36-year-old pleaded guilty to six charges of supplying drugs as well as possessing a phone used to organise a series of small methylamphetamine deals in 2020.

The court heard Pyke dealt at least 9g of the drug to an undercover officer between March 19 and May 16 last year.

The court heard Pyke was an intermediary and was ‘paid’ not in cash for arranging the deals but in small amounts of the drug for her own use.

Alena Pyke pleaded guilty in Gympie District Court to seven charges stemming from a series of small drug deals in 2020.

Pyke’s lawyer told the court his client was arrested on September 2020 and then remanded in custody in July, 2021.

She was pregnant at the time.

Six days before her most recent court appearance, she gave birth by caesarean section, lost 1.5L of blood and developed a bacterial infection.

She returned to prison from the hospital only four days after the birth.

Judge Glen Cash sentenced Pyke to remain in jail until December 14 with parole for a further 10 months.

He said Pyke was “old enough to know the harm drugs do” and warned she was at risk of losing her children should she not clean up her act.

“If you want to be a mother to them you need to be there,” Mr Cash said.