Cameron Blewitt warned by Queensland Police officer girlfriend Kirra-Lee Currell

It only took a few months for a drug dealer to charm his “naive and foolish” police officer girlfriend into giving up her dream career. Read what went down here.

Former Queensland Police Service officer Kirra-Lee Currell, 27, (blonde hair in dark attire) pleaded guilty to two misconduct charges where she told her then-boyfriend Cameron Grant Blewitt he was on police radar for dealing cocaine and illegally possessing weapons. Pictured leaving Rockhampton court house with her mother (front left), then Currell, then her fiance and her lawyer Calvin Gnech in front.

It only took a few months for a drug dealer to charm his “naive and foolish” police officer girlfriend into giving up her dream career before she found out he was on the police radar for his illicit conduct.

That former police officer, Kirra-Lee Currell, pleaded guilty on November 7 in Rockhampton District Court to two counts of corruption-type offences – being a public officer who dealt with information gained while working in the role, with the intent to dishonestly gain a benefit for another person.

Currell, 27, carried out the two offences on March 25 and March 27, 2020 – seven months after graduating from the Townsville-based Queensland Police Service Academy.

Former Queensland Police Service officer Kirra-Lee Currell, 27, (blonde hair in dark attire) pleaded guilty to two misconduct charges where she told her then-boyfriend Cameron Grant Blewitt he was on police radar for dealing cocaine and illegally possessing weapons. Pictured leaving Rockhampton courthouse with her mother (front left), then Currell, then her fiance and her lawyer Calvin Gnech in front.

Defence lawyer Calvin Gnech said Currell started a relationship with Cameron Grant Blewitt at the end of 2019 and was not aware, until she found out in the course of her job on March 25, that he was suspected by police of dealing drugs.

Blewitt, a former Rockhampton Grammar School student, who was named the private school’s senior athlete of the year, was using performance enhancing drugs to help him excel in sports and also supplied the dangerous drugs to others.

He was sentenced in June 2021 for nine counts of supplying a dangerous drug and other drug charges and received a 12-month prison term, suspended for two years, and fined $800 with criminal convictions recorded.

Judge Catherine Muir, who described Currell as naive and foolish, said the young officer had been pulled aside at work on March 25 and told not to communicate with Blewitt.

“You were texting him about wanting space and that you had been pulled aside at work and warned not to communicate with him,” she said.

Crown prosecutor Joshua Phillips said Currell told Blewitt he was on the police’s radar and that “if he stopped, police would forget about him”.

Her messages were discovered when police raided Blewitt’s address and seized his phone on April 25.

The court heard Currell told Blewitt she had “intelligence submissions” saying he was a drug dealer and that she would “lay low” and “mind her business” and agreed to catch up with him.

“You then suggested to him that the police would forget about him if he had no further intel submissions,” Judge Muir said.

She said Currell told Blewitt she would have to play their relationship by ear as she didn’t know how she’d feel in a month and that she had been in the drug investigation unit that day.

The court heard Currell told Blewit police“had mug shots of young people and what they were dealing” and that the police “could take her phone at any time” and she was not going to risk her job for him.

Judge Muir said Blewitt messaged her that he loved her and Currell replied she was “numb”.

She said that two days later, Currell and Blewitt communicated again, with Currell telling him she had further information about his intel submission – that he was “doing coke”, he was a heavy cocaine user and that he had all sorts of weapons at his house and at his parents’ house and that his mother knew he dealt cocaine and “she’s in on it”.

However, Blewitt was sentenced for possessing steroids, MDMA and restricted drugs with no weapons convictions.

Cameron Blewitt.

Judge Muir said Currell told Blewitt the informant was from someone who had been close to him and had likely been to a particular family house in Brisbane.

“I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that you did not know, or turned a blind eye to the fact, that he (Blewitt) was dealing in drugs,” Judge Muir said.

“But the messaging shows that clearly you ought to have had, or you had, some inkling.”

Mr Gnech said Currell had tried to disclose her relationship with Blewitt before the raid on his house where the evidence of her communications was discovered.

“Within seven days, my client has managed to end the relationship and deal with this issue of her unknowingly being in love and in a relationship with a person, at that point in time, the police reasonably suspected to be a drug dealer,” he said.

Mr Gnech said the evidence in the messages showed Currell, who was 24 years old at the time, had tried to break up with Blewitt since February, but “he manages to get himself back in her life”.

“This is not put as an excuse,” he said.

“She’s here pleading guilty, bus as an explanation in hindsight.

“She’s very embarrassed and regrets that she lacked any strength to deal with that situation.”

Mr Gnech said Currell had approached her sergeant and asked him for help on April 6.

He said she didn’t tell the sergeant about the content of the messages, but she did approach him twice for help about a ‘declarable association’ and “whether she had to do anything”.

Mr Gnech said the sergeant advised Currell they had to do a ‘comfort submission’, but this advice came at the end of a night shift just before the sergeant went on four weeks leave.

That process never occurred.

Mr Gnech said that the day before the raid on Blewitt’s residence, Currell approached a senior sergeant about her ex-boyfriend, telling the senior sergeant police suspected he had taken cocaine and whether she needed to do anything about it.

She didn’t tell this officer about the text messages either.

Mr Gnech said the senior sergeant told her she didn’t need to do anything.

He said the day after the raid, Currell sent an email to another senior sergeant, offering to talk to police in person about Blewitt.

Mr Gnech said during the course of Currell and Blewitt’s relationship, he had convinced her to leave the QPS, which had been her dream job since a child, and go to work in the mines.

Judge Muir said Currell appeared to be “delusionally in love with someone who was wrong” for her.

She said Currell’s police officer housemate had been dealt with by the courts in September 2020 for looking Blewitt up in QPrime, having been charged with hacking and fined $600.

Currell, who was charged in December 2020, has since left the police force, completed a nursing diploma and works at her fiance’s gym.

She had no criminal record and Judge Muir said she accepted this behaviour was out of character

Judge Muir sentenced Currell to a six-month prison term, wholly suspended and operational for 12 months.