Convicted drug trafficker Amy Melissa Alderson busted with meth in Allenstown

A mother-of-two who received treatment for cancer while in prison was back before the courts eight months after being jailed for trafficking. VIDEO

A former adult shop worker convicted of trafficking drugs earlier this year has fronted court yet again - this time for secreting evidence in her body.

Amy Melissa Alderson, 39, was convicted in April 2024 of trafficking methamphetamines for two months in September 2022.

She was back before the Supreme Court in Rockhampton on December 4 again for meth offences she carried out while she was on bail for the trafficking offending, the court heard.

Justice Graeme Crow said Alderson came to the attention of police again during Operation Victor Cope where she was overheard having a conversation with a man accused of trafficking drugs but yet to have his matters finalised by the courts.

Justice Crow said in the call the man was heard saying “I’m about to go out and get some stuff” and that he would send someone back with the “stuff”.

Justice Crow said two hours later, Alderson called the man and asked if he was “out the front” while she, observed by police, was out the front of a licensed premises.

After more interactions, including a physical one, Alderson left in a vehicle and was intercepted by police on the corner of William and Canning Streets in Allenstown.

Justice Crow said she and her passenger were detained for search but she refused to remove her underwear in the police pod at the scene so she was taken to the Rockhampton Watchhouse where police conducted a full body cavity search and found a clipseal bag in her vagina containing 5.22g of pure meth in 6.49g of substance.

During her trafficking sentence, defence barrister Nicholas Brown said his client had turned to using meth after being robbed by a man high on amphetamines and armed with a knife in 2007 while working at the adult shop.

He said despite her long struggles with drug use, the mother-of-two had a good work history, including roles as a residential youth worker and a residential support worker.

When she was sentenced in April, the court heard she had been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer and required radiation treatment, and possible chemotherapy, before undergoing major surgery.

Mr Brown told the Supreme Court this week that Alderson had completed chemotherapy and radiation treatment while she was in jail.

Justice Crow sentenced her in April to six-years prison, declared 364 days presentence custody as time served and set parole eligibility for December 10, 2024.

Alderson pleaded guilty on December 4 to one count of possessing more than two grams of a schedule one drug and Justice Crow ordered she be convicted and not further punished.