Mum spirals into meth after teen son’s crash death

Kylie Stonebridge was caught with drugs months after her son, Jacob Hopkins, was killed in a Rothwell crash.

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A GRIEVING mother has turned to drugs just months after her teenage son was killed in an alleged car theft gone wrong, a court has heard.

Kylie Marie Janette Stonebridge, 38, was found with a glass pipe and small amount of methamphetamine in a plastic bag on July 14, which duty lawyer Greg Lee said was related to coping with her son's sudden death on May 29.

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Jacob Hopkins died when the suspected stolen car he was a passenger in smashed into another vehicle before it slammed into a pole at a Rothwell intersection.

Jacob Hopkins, 14, was killed in a two-vehicle crash after a group of teenagers allegedly stole a car.

The teen died at the scene while all six passengers, aged between 10 and 16 years old, were trapped in the wreckage.

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Stonebridge pleaded guilty in Caloundra Magistrates Court on Wednesday to possessing dangerous drugs and utensils.

Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist ordered Stonebridge pay $450 and hand over the property.

A conviction was recorded.

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