Chloe-June Christine Wilson was jailed for four years for trafficking ice for 49 days, she argued the penalty was too harsh

She was jailed for four years for pushing ice. She argued this was too harsh. Now a decision has been handed down.

A Mackay region mother of three had her push to appeal a four-year term quashed.

A self represented mother of three jailed for four years for her role in an ice trafficking venture complained to the Court of Appeal about her lawyers as she argued against the penalty claiming it was too harsh.

Chloe-June Christine Wilson was busted trafficking ice for 49 days in the Mackay region. Police had been targeting a man named Walker and Wilson was picked up during phone taps, a recent Court of Appeal judgment revealed.

She obtained wholesale quantities of methylamphetamines from Walker and sold them in personal use amounts.

Sometimes she sold larger amounts, which could be on-sold.

“She had a customer base of at least six people and would boast to Walker about how busy she was,” the judgment said.

The true extent of her trafficking and profits could not be determined.

On December 21, 2018 she was caught with five clip seal bags containing 17.3 grams of pure methylamphetamines in 24.7 grams of substance.

About 24 hours later, on December 22, Wilson caught with 5.95 grams of pure ice in 8.3 grams of substance.

On January 10, 2019 Wilson was also found with a tick sheet listing seven people.

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Mackay Supreme Court, at the time of her sentence in July 2020, heard Wilson struggled with a dysfunctional family life, domestic violence, mental and physical health issues and drug addiction.

However Justice Graeme Crow had said a particularly aggravating feature against Wilson was that she was caught by police with a large amount of drugs twice in just more than 24 hours.

Then 29, Wilson was jailed for four years with parole eligibility in August 2021 for trafficking and aggravated possession of ice.

Self represented, Wilson argued it should have been three years suspended after serving nine months.

She made several complaints about her legal team including they failed to tender important documents in relation to her rehabilitation and mental health, that she was not told she would be returning to custody and that two weeks before her sentence her solicitor represented her co-accused’s girlfriend.

“In my view, none of these matters, by themselves or taken together, affect the outcome of this matter,” Justice Elizabeth Wilson said in a recent judgment.

“Any failure by the applicant’s solicitor to inform her that she would be returning to custody is of no relevance to whether her sentence was excessive.

“Further, (Wilson) did not develop how her solicitor’s representation of another … in the same operation compromised her own representation.

“The sentence proceeding itself was conducted by very experienced counsel. The sentence for (the girlfriend) was conducted by different counsel.”

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Justice Wilson said an overwhelming feature of (the girlfriend’s) case had been she “was a young, susceptible woman, who was introduced to drugs and the selling of drugs by her violent partner, and that she had good prospects of rehabilitation”.

Wilson tried relying on an affidavit that set out in more detail why she committed the offences.

“Leave is required to adduce this evidence. In my view, leave should not be granted. The affidavit almost entirely details matters occurring before the sentence date. These matters would have been known to (Wilson) at the time of sentence and available for counsel,” Justice Wilson said.

Justice Wilson said Wilson had not demonstrated a misapplication of principle by Justice Crow nor that the penalty imposed was unreasonable or unjust.

The application to adduce further evidence was denied and the push to appeal against the sentence was quashed.

Originally published as Chloe-June Christine Wilson was jailed for four years for trafficking ice for 49 days, she argued the penalty was too harsh