30 mums and dads across Queensland in meth-related offences rocking families across the state
From stunning young mums to role model fathers, these are the Queensland parents who’ve been in court on meth-related charges. SEE THE LIST
While parenting may be a full-time job, some Queensland mothers and fathers have found time to commit crimes involving methamphetamine.
We take a look at 30 mums and dads across Queensland who were in court for various offences involving meth in the last two years.
See the parents below who had convictions recorded.
AMY MELISSA ALDERSON
Rockhampton mother-of-two Amy Melissa Alderson trafficked 315.7g meth to 36 customers over just two months in 2022.
In April 2024, the Rockhampton Supreme Court heard the largest supply was “an incredible” 140g for $37,500, as Alderson pleaded guilty to one count each of trafficking drugs, possessing more than 2g of drugs and contravening a directive to provide access to electronically stored information.
When police intercepted her driving in August 2022, they found her passenger had “poorly” stashed 72.967g pure meth in 101.467g of substance under his scrotum, the court was told.
Alderson had 36 “customers” and provided a total of 315.7g in 126 supplies between July 6 and September 9, 2022, the court heard.
The court heard Alderson had been diagnosed with stage two cancer, and would undergo most of her treatment in jail.
She pleaded guilty to trafficking and was sentenced to six years in jail.
Parole eligibility was set for December 2024, with 364 days in presentence custody declared time already served.
SHIANN KARLY ASHE
Mackay mum Shiann Karly Ashe who previously brought meth to a courthouse was busted dealing drugs.
Ashe pleaded guilty in the Mackay District Court on February 28, 2025, to a raft of charges including eight counts of supplying a dangerous drug.
Ashe was at home when police found two clip seal bags filled with 1.5g of methamphetamine, less than a gram of marijuana, a glass bong, glass pipe and a phone.
The court heard she sold meth and cannabis to five people on eight different occasions.
District Judge Gregory Lynham said the most concerning drug supply offence occurred on September 9, 2023 when Ashe exchanged 3.5g of meth for $1200.
Judge Lynham sentenced her to 18 months imprisonment and ordered she be immediately released on parole, warning her to “kick the habit” and “this is your last chance to stay out of jail.
JODIE MARIE BAILEY
Hervey Bay woman Jodie Marie Bailey crashed into a parked car after taking meth earlier in the day and was later busted with the drug and a loaded syringe.
Bailey pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs, possessing a syringe and failing to dispose of it safely, and to drug driving when she faced Hervey Bay Magistrates Court in July.
Police prosecutor Louise McConnell said at 11.45pm on October 7, 2024, Bailey crashed into a parked vehicle before admitting to police she had taken meth earlier in the day and recorded a positive result for methamphetamine when tested.
In a separate incident, on April 15, 2025, Bailey gave permission for police to search her bag where police found packages of syringes, before finding a clip seal bag of meth when they searched her and the car she had parked on the side of the road.
The meth in the bag weighed 1.32 grams, and the meth inside the syringe measured 25ml.
Magistrate Trinity McGarvie fined Bailey $850 for the drug driving charge and disqualified her from driving for six months.
Bailey was sentenced to three months in prison for possessing a dangerous drug, wholly suspended for six months.
TIMOTHY DARYL BARRON
Father-of-three and football coach Timothy Daryl Barron trafficked cocaine and marijuana, and arranged to supply more than 20 grams of methamphetamines, to support his own cocaine addiction and to buy things for his wife and kids.
Crown prosecutor Kathryn Walker told the Rockhampton Supreme Court in July 2024, that the Callide Power Station employee had at least 22 customers and at least one employee.
Barron arranged a supply 20.15 grams of methamphetamines in 27.085 grams of substance during his drug trafficking periods which was to be picked up from a Gracemere residence – this pick up arrangement was detected during a phone intercept.
A police search of his accomodation at a mining camp in Moura and his Biloela home in May 2021 located a mobile phone with evidence of his trafficking business, along with $2000 cash and a tick sheet.
Barron pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking a dangerous drug, one of supplying a dangerous drug, among other charges, and was sentenced by Justice Crow to serve six months in prison, with a release date set for January 18, 2025.
KATELYN JADE EDWARDS
Sunshine Coast mother Katelyn Jade Edwards did not return two hire cars and told police drugs officers found during an unexpected raid of her were actually “multivitamins”.
Edwards told officers this after they were able to track a rental vehicle she hired from a Marcoola rental car business on August 30, 2024 that she did not return.
On October 28, 2024, the Maroochydore Magistrates Court was told officers tracked the car to a Landsborough home on September 10 and after trying to raise someone at the door, they entered the home where they found Edwards in a bedroom with the keys close by and the stolen Toyota in the backyard.
The court was told a number of drugs were also found when they entered the home.
They found three pills filled with MDMA inside a glasses case, along with 2g of meth, two diazepam tablets and a glass pipe.
Magistrate Chris Callaghan placed the Sunshine Coast woman on an 18-month probation order and fined her $250.
DALE THOMAS FISHER
Out-of-work cleaner Dale Thomas Fisher was sentenced in Central Queensland after he was caught with five bags of drugs in his car outside a Caboolture pub.
Fisher pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 22, 2025 to two counts of possessing dangerous drugs and one count of possessing drug utensils.
The court heard that on November 19 last year, police were conducting patrols in the carpark of Morayfield Tavern when they found Fisher in a vehicle.
Fisher became agitated during a licence check, admitted he was a daily meth user and positioned himself in a way that made it difficult to see inside the vehicle.
The court heard during a search of Fisher’s vehicle, police found five bags of cannabis (total weight 311g) and a bag containing eight glass pipes.
It was told while police were questioning Fisher, a plastic bottle fell from the waistband of his pants – it contained .1g of methamphetamine.
Magistrate Lance Rundle placed Fisher on nine months’ probation.
KEAGAN BRIAN DARCY FREEMAN
Father-of-six Keagan Brian Darcy Freeman broke into a Qld high school, hurling an explicit slur at a student before ending up locked in a cupboard.
Freeman was high on methamphetamines at the time he broke into Blackwater High School on March 26, 2025, Rockhampton Magistrates Court heard.
Magistrate Philippa Beckinsale said Freeman broke into the high school and then into a storeroom in a business premises at the school, telling a 15-year-old girl “s*** my d***” in the process.
Defence lawyer Teaghan Bankier said her client ended up locked in a cupboard and police prosecutor Mirren Smith said this was for two hours.
Freeman pleaded guilty to one count each of break and enter into an educational facility, enter premises used for business, wilful indecent act to offend, and possess dangerous drugs.
Ms Beckinsale sentenced him to nine months’ prison.
She also ordered the suspended sentences imposed on February 17, 2025, and May 12 be activated and served concurrently.
Freeman was released immediately on parole.
ASHLEIGH MARGARET HAMERTON
Bundaberg mum Ashleigh Margaret Hamerton trafficked to at least 45 customers at a street level for eight months in 2020 and 2021.
When police raided her Burnett Heads home, they found over 7g of pure methamphetamine, along with scales and clipseal bags.
Hamerton was paid $46,536 across 160 transactions, the Bundaberg Supreme Court heard at her sentencing on May 1, 2024.
Hamerton pleaded guilty to trafficking and one count of possessing dangerous drugs exceeding two grams, and was sentenced to six years in jail, with parole eligibility after nine months.
Defence barrister Peter O’Connor appeared for Hamerton and submitted five references in praise of her work history and character.
KAYLEM JAMES HINE
Sunshine Coast father Kaylem James Hine left his fraud victim in the lurch for nearly two years when he dishonestly induced almost $5000 from him through an online car listing.
On July 9, 2024, the Caloundra Magistrates Court heard Hine induced the victim to transfer $4800 over seven different transactions, some through PayID, while other payments were sent to his partner’s account. Hine would then transfer the funds to himself.
Sergeant Potter said the 28-year-old was intercepted by police along Cribb St at Landsborough on April 10 where he returned a positive result to a drug test roadside.
Police searched the vehicle where 4.29g of ice was found, along with drug related items including spoons, scales, a pipe and blowtorch lighters.
Hine pleaded guilty to five offences including possessing dangerous drugs over the schedule, drug driving and dishonestly inducing delivery of property and was sentenced to 14 months’ jail, but given immediate parole.
He was fined $1000, ordered to pay $400 restitution, disqualified from driving for four months and ordered to complete 60 hours’ community service.
LILY FRANCIS HOUNSLOW
Pregnant drug mule Lily Francis Hounslow was busted with $250,000 of methamphetamines on the Bruce Highway and claimed she didn’t know she was working for outlaw bikie gangs.
Hounslow was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Rockhampton on June 6, 2025, after being intercepted on the Neville Hewitt Bridge on October 20, 2022 with 1.993kg substance containing 1.513kg of pure meth concealed in five large clip-seal bags in the tail-lights of a Volkswagen Amarok.
Police also located 59.1 grams of pure cocaine in 248.5g of substance which had a street value of about $80,000.
Justice Crow said Hounslow told police she was travelling to Mackay and the car belonged to “a friend of a friend”.
Hounslow pleaded guilty to one count of possessing more than 200 grams of a schedule one drug and one count of possessing more than two grams of a schedule one drug.
She was sentenced to six years prison with 19 days presentence custody declared as time already served and parole eligibility from May 12, 2026.
Hounslow failed to appeal her sentence on July 22, 2025.
JAYDA HOWARD
Nerman Mum Jayda Howard spent three months behind bars on remand following her self destruction due to drugs, which was retold in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on May 23, 2025 after she admitted to all 13 charges against her.
The offences included two counts of trespass, two of breaching bail and one of enter premises with intent, possessing drugs, stealing and failing to appear in court.
The court heard Howard was seen leaving a Maroochydore home with a group of people on January 12 and told the victim they wanted to rent the property.
The victim knew their home was broken into due to the screens on one of the doors being damaged along with items removed.
Howard’s other offences included causing a public nuisance at a retirement village’s pool area in Parrearra after verbally abusing members of the body corporate on January 24.
Magistrate Rod Madsen placed Howard on an 18 month probation order.
TYLER MICHAEL HUGHES
Central Queensland father Tyler Michael Hughes acted as the ‘middleman’ when he arranged 18 methamphetamine and cocaine supplies between April-September, 2021.
On March 1, 2024, the Rockhampton District Court heard the drug supplies were detected after Hughes’ phone was seized during a search of his home in September 2021.
Crown prosecutor Kathryn Walker said the cocaine supplies were for one to seven grams and the meth supplies were for 0.01g to 28.3495g.
Defence barrister Liam Kennedy said caring for his partner’s children since the offending had kept Hughes on the straight and narrow.
Hughes pleaded guilty to 18 counts of supplying dangerous drugs and one count of possessing a thing used in a crime.
Judge Burnett sentenced him to 18-months prison, wholly suspended with an operational period of three years.
STEPHEN MATTHEW HUMRICH
FIFO worker and dad Stephen Matthew Humrich was caught arranging drug supplies as a “middle man” during a police investigation into a trafficking ring.
On January, 25, 2024, the Southport District Court was told Humrich caught detectives’ attention through his association with another man believed to be involved in the drug syndicate.
The 38-year-old was heard on an intercepted phone call telling his contact he had “mad MDMA” for them to sample and arranging to meet in November 2022.
Humrich organised to collect several grams of methylamphetamine – plus “a little bit” for himself on one occasion – twice more that same month, it was heard.
Humrich pleaded guilty to three counts of supplying a Schedule 1 drug and one count of possessing anything used in the commission of a crime.
He was sentenced to 12 months’ jail, wholly suspended for 18 months.
MADISON ELIZABETH LAMB
Mackay mum-of-two Madison Elizabeth Lamb tried to extort $300 and half a ball of meth over a stolen motorbike and threatened to ‘come and take what's owed’ if the owner didn’t pay up.
The Mackay District Court on November 12, 2024, heard the victim had posted on a local Facebook group about his stolen motorbike offering a reward for anyone who came forward to help find it.
Then 23, Lamb sent him a message in September 2022 claiming she would tell him who stole his bike if he paid her the reward.
She insisted he pay her first — but Lamb also tried to sell the motorbike for half a ball of meth to two others.
She pleaded guilty to extortion on September 28, 2024 and two counts of dishonestly applying the motorbike to her own use and supplying meth on September 25, 2024.
She was jailed for six month wholly suspended for nine months.
TRENT CHARLES LANGLEY
Father Trent Charles Langley was busted with about $20,000 cash and 10g of meth on the side of the highway, after he started trafficking as soon as he was released from prison in September, 2022.
On July 25, 2024 the Rockhampton Supreme Court heard Langley had a customer base of 20 to 30 people, with supplies of between 0.1g for $50 up to 3.5g for $1100 to “predominantly end users” for cash, credit or on tick.
Langley was intercepted driving on the Capricorn Highway on January 6, 2023, with police finding him in possession of $21,480 cash.
His residence was searched on January 27, 2023, where police found 9.991g of methamphetamines in 13.322g of substance along with clip-seal bags, a gram of marijuana, three mobile phones, scales, cut straws and a further $4015 in cash.
Langley pleaded guilty to all charges and Justice Crow sentenced Langley to three years prison, wholly suspended with a three-year operational period.
Langley had spent 544 days in prison prior to sentence which was not declared as presentence custody.
Justice Crow also placed Langley on probation for 12 months.
ANDREW ALLAN MESTRINARO
Gold Coast father Andrew Allan Mestrinaro who trafficked in methamphetamine and pharmaceuticals also received a cache of ballistic vests stolen from police, which he then sold or attempted to sell.
Mestrinaro appeared in the Brisbane Supreme Court on January 29, 2025 having previously pleaded guilty to 17 charges including trafficking in dangerous drugs.
Mestrinaro was arrested following a search warrant at his residence on May 18, 2023, the court heard.
The search warrant uncovered a cornucopia of contraband: 3.26g pure weight of meth, $6075 cash, a small quantity of heroin, a sildenafil tablet, digital scales and clipseal bags, a used ice pipe, boxes of .22 calibre bullets, a silencer firearm attachment, several forged Queensland drivers licences, tools and items used to make the forged identity documents, and a glass vial of liquid steroid.
Analysis of Mestrinaro’s phone revealed he had been trafficking in meth and pharmaceuticals for about five weeks prior to his arrest.
Justice Frances Williams sentenced Mestrinaro to four years’ imprisonment, wholly suspended for an operational period of five years, and placed him on two years’ probation.
MA CORAZON MEZAKS
Gold Coast mother Ma Corazon Mezaks was jailed for her role in attempting to import more than 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, with a street value of up to $2.7 million, into Australia.
Mezaks in February 2025 pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to possessing a commercial quantity of unlawfully imported border-controlled drugs.
The court was told that in September 2021, United States authorities seized an international mail article containing 10.8kg of methamphetamine, with a purity of 100 per cent, secreted within a computer tower.
The package was addressed to Mezaks at an address in Surfers Paradise.
Mezaks’ job was to collect the package and deliver it to her co-defendant, Ian Richard Hanson, who was sentenced previously, with the pair arrested during the package handover.
She told officers she was a drug user, wanted to buy drugs, and was “helping out” Hanson, who was additionally in possession of a cardboard box containing $411,900 cash at the point of arrest.
Mezaks was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, suspended after serving 12 months on condition she enter into a $500, three-year good-behaviour bond.
RUBY MATILDA MORTIMER
Gold Coast mum Ruby Matilda Mortimer, who was on meth and cannabis when she crashed into and killed an 80-year-old near the Qld-NSW border, escaped imprisonment.
Mortimer faced Lismore District Court on July 3, 2025 for sentencing after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and driving with illicit drugs in her system.
The crash occurred on February 6, 2023 when Mortimer’s car veered into the opposite lane on the Tweed Valley Way in Dunbible, and collided head-on with Sandra Kesler’s Honda Jazz.
According to agreed police facts, the impact caused Ms Kesler’s car to flip onto its side and slide into a safety railing.
Crown prosecutor Brendan Campbell said Mortimer’s mental state had led to a momentary lapse in attention, with Mortimer’s lawyer telling the court Mortimer was profoundly remorseful.
Judge Everson convicted Mortimer and sentenced her to two years imprisonment, to be served as an intensive corrections order (ICO). Mortimer was disqualified from driving for two years for the dangerous driving offence and six months for the illicit drug charge.
A separate charge of negligent driving was withdrawn.
COURTNEY JADE MUELLER
Mother-of-two Courtney Jade Mueller has been sentenced for more than 50 charges including producing methamphetamine and possessing more than 10 stolen cars at her home.
Mueller pleaded guilty to all charges in the Ipswich Courthouse on June 17, 2024, including 23 counts of unlawful possession of motor vehicles with the intention to deprive.
The court heard that when police attended her home on April 5 last year for an unrelated matter they discovered an active drug production laboratory.
There were apparatus and chemicals for manufacturing a synthetic drug which was a precursor in the production of methamphetamine.
Police also found stolen vehicles, some in poor condition, at her home.
Magistrate Robert Walker considered Mueller had good prospects for rehabilitation and sentenced her to two years’ probation.
She was also disqualified from holding a driver’s licence for six months.
BILLIE-JO NOLAN
Young mum Billie-Jo Nolan escaped having to spend any actual time behind bars after her drug trafficking was uncovered by police, who she told how easily she made money off her operation.
Nolan pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Supreme Court in April 2024, to a number of offences including drug trafficking, drug supplying and possessing more than 2g of meth.
Nolan was discovered as a person of interest through the police operation Uniform Wilton and investigations revealed she carried out 21 supplies to eight different customers, ranging in quantities from a point to 1.7g, between April and July 2022.
Phone intercepts revealed in a span of 20 days, between June 10-30 2022, Nolan agreed to supply meth on 19 occasions, and during that time she supplied a total of about 10.8g of the drug to different people.
The court heard Nolan’s profit from the trafficking would vary from $500 or less in a day up to $1000.
Nolan was sentenced to five years imprisonment which was immediately suspended for an operational period of five years.
DANIELLE LOUISE O’BRIEN
Logan mother Danielle Louise O’Brien, whose son drove over a young police officer and later died in the Beenleigh Watchhouse, was caught by police with 5g of methamphetamine stashed up her bum and was in possession of a shotgun.
In April 2024, Beenleigh Magistrates Court heard O’Brien’s drug-use and criminal behaviour began when her 21-year-old son Riley O’Brien-Faulkner tragically died in the Beenleigh Watchhouse on August 17 last year while on a return to prison warrant.
The court heard On September 14, 2023 in Crestmead the 43-year-old mother of three was found with a shotgun and ammunition in her car.
Police also located 5g of methamphetamine stored up the Crestmead woman’s rectum on August 13, which had an estimated purity of 75 per cent.
O’Brien pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs exceeding schedule three, authority needed to use explosives, possession of utensils or pipes and two charges of unlawful possession of a weapon.
O’Brien was sentenced to 18 months prison, wholly suspended for an operation period of two years.
She had already served 133 days of pre-sentence custody.
CRAIG ELLIOTT PHILLIPS
Cairns father-of-two Craig Elliott Phillips was in a massive wholesale methamphetamine trafficking operation in Far North Queensland and was jailed for seven years.
Phillips pleaded guilty to trafficking, supply and possess anything used in the commission of a crime in Cairns Supreme Court on June 10, 2024.
Crown prosecutor Seamus McManus said the syndicate got a Townsville-based driver to deliver meth in large quantities to a base at Mowbray, near Port Douglas.
Mr McManus told the court Phillips and his brother Cameron then did “drug runs” to the address, picking up 250g parcels of meth for $80,000, or $9000 an ounce – selling it for $12,000 per ounce, a profit margin of $3000 per ounce and overall profit of $26,000 during the time of the offences.
The court heard it typically took them a fortnight to offload 250g of meth, with ounce and gram amounts sold.
Phillips received a head sentence of seven years with parole eligibility on December 9, 2025, with an appeal to the sentence still before the court.
BRADLEY GRAHAM POTTS
“Law abiding” family man Bradley Graham Potts became a drug trafficker involved in an organised crime syndicate that smuggled millions of dollars worth of cannabis into Queensland, and sold meth on the streets.
Brisbane’s Supreme Court in March 2024 heard after attending a party where he was introduced to ice following a drop in work with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Potts operated a successful street level trafficking business supplying cocaine and meth in gram amounts and steroids in vials.
A tick sheet on his phone revealed he’d been paid $261,750 from 20 customers as of February 2021 and was charged but released on bail.
On bail between August to November 2021 Potts became involved with an organised syndicate that was trucking wholesale amounts of cannabis into Queensland from South Australia.
Potts would charge $3700 for an ounce of meth.
In the Brisbane Supreme Court, Potts pleaded guilty to two counts each of drug trafficking and supplying weapons, three counts each of possessing drugs in excess of two grams and possessing drugs and one count of receiving tainted property.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with 848 days of pre-sentence custody declared as time served.
An appeal was refused on November 1, 2024.
HANNAH JANE QUANT
Central Queensland mother Hannah Jane Quant began using meth again once she was released from prison after serving jail time for possessing $55,000 in drugs, was sentenced to parole only when she was busted with 8.42g of pure meth in an 11g substance.
Quant had $3105 cash in her wallet when police raided her Boyne Island home on October 13, 2022, the Supreme Court in Rockhampton heard on January 15, 2024.
Crown prosecutor Cameron Keast said Quant, who had been sentenced to a three-year prison term with immediate parole in August 2017 for possessing drugs and supplying drugs, had a long history of using drugs.
Quant pleaded guilty to one count each of possessing more than two grams of a schedule one drug, possessing a used glass pipe, possessing Australian currency suspected to be the proceeds of a drug crime and possessing property suspected of being used in a drug crime.
Justice Crow sentenced her to three years prison with immediate parole.
TONY LEONARD RICE
Tony Leonard Rice, who made a bombshell confession during a fatal hit-and-run inquest, was jailed for drug trafficking after being busted with 136 grams of methamphetamines on the Bruce Highway.
The Rockhampton Supreme Court in May 2025 heard former meatworks labourer Rice, had 96.2899 of pure methamphetamines in 136.581 grams of substance when he was stopped by police while driving on the Bruce Highway.
After this intercept, Rice became a “person of interest” during Queensland Police’s Operation Victor Cope which revealed his trafficking operation between June 5, 2023 and September 5, 2023.
The court heard Rice had helped his supplier, former jockey Jackelyn Anne Johnston, in her trafficking business.
The father-of-four was captured visiting Johnston’s home 27 times between July 10, 2023 and September 7, 2023 and some of those times, sourcing meth – commonly 28-56 grams.
Rice pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking drugs, two of possessing more than two grams of a schedule one drug, four of supplying dangerous drugs and one of possessing a thing used in trafficking drugs.
He was handed a head sentence of 10 years prison – 5.5 years prison for the first large drug possession and 4.5 years for the trafficking offences – with 761 days presentence custody declared as time already served.
MELANIE BREE SHEARMAN
A court was told young Moranbah mum Melanie Bree Shearman was selling methamphetamine and planning a $4000 drug deal when police swooped.
Shearman appeared in Mackay District Court April 29. 2025, where she pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying drugs and one count of possession of something used to commit a crime.
The court heard she was 19 when she first offered to supply up to 1g of methamphetamine to a person in Moranbah on July 22, 2021 and on September 3, 2021 she then sold another 1.75g of methamphetamine to a buyer for $1100 and on September 17 she was involved in arranging a much larger deal.
The court heard Shearman was involved in arranging the supply of 7g of methamphetamine in exchange for around $4000.
District Judge Loury sentenced Shearman to 15 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years and convictions were recorded.
CHLOE VICTORIA SMITH
Glam mum of three Chloe Victoria Smith was blasted after she attacked her ex partner’s new girlfriend in a violent “home invasion” style incident.
On February 17, 2025, The Mackay District Court heard while on bail for serious drug offending under the influence of meth, Smith went to a South Mackay home where she lashed out against Annita Hollands, punching her multiple times in the neck and chest.
Smith took one of her sons to a vehicle parked outside and got in the driver’s seat, at which point Ms Hollands had called the police and was trying to take down the licence plate number.
The court heard this angered Smith further, so she again assaulted Ms Hollands outside the home which was witnessed by neighbours.
The court heard Smith later sent Ms Hollands a Facebook message apologising for her conduct.
Smith was initially charged with grievous bodily harm but this was replaced with assault occasioning bodily harm, and burglary, to which she pleaded guilty.
Because of Smith’s ongoing parole, Judge Lynham determined the best option to allow her to continue with her rehabilitation was 18 months jail, immediately suspended.
KYM MAREE SUTTON
Toowoomba mother Kym Maree Sutton who was on the run from police for more than a year, broke down in tears and said she would be killed in jail.
Sutton was sentenced to a three-year jail term before Toowoomba Supreme Court on April 24, 2024.
Crown prosecutor Nicole Friedewald said Sutton’s meth trafficking business serviced several Goondiwindi customers, where she sold street level amounts of the drug ranging between one point and 2.5g.
The total amount of methamphetamine trafficked by Sutton was unknown, however Ms Friedewald said in October 2019 and January 2020, she facilitated two drug deals relating to an ‘Eight ball’ (3.5g) and 2.5g of meth.
Sutton pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying meth and one charge of carrying on the business of unlawfully trafficking a dangerous drug and was sentenced to a three year jail term.
She was to be released on parole on April 24, 2025, after serving one year of her sentence.
JENNIFER JOAN TURNER
Sunshine Coast mother-of-three Jennifer Joan Turner killed a truck driver while driving dangerously with lethal levels of meth in her system, and attempted to appeal her 10-year jail sentence for the “selfish” crime.
Turner was speeding at 164km/h on a provisional drivers licence when she killed Gold Coast-based truck driver Shane Morse in June, 2022.
Turner returned blood test readings four hours after the crash revealing levels of methamphetamine “above the average seen in cases of lethal methamphetamine toxicity”.
Turner had pleaded guilty to one count each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death while intoxicated by meth and excessively speeding, drug driving and contravening police direction.
She was sentenced to 10 years jail and was disqualified from driving absolutely.
Turner attempted to appeal her sentence, arguing it was “excessive” and “crushing” given the 522 days she spent on remand in custody prior to her sentence.
Turner’s appeal against the sentence was dismissed.
BRITTANY RAE WISE
Sunshine Coast mother Brittany Rae Wise drove her car into a garden bed after police tried to intercept her in a McDonald’s takeaway line, while she was driving disqualified on meth.
On February 5, 2025, Maroochydore Magistrates Court heard Wise was under the influence of ice at the fast food establishment’s drive thru at Minyama on August 13 last year when she was caught behind the wheel.
Wise faced other charges which included two counts of driving disqualified and possessing drug utensils. She pleaded guilty to all charges.
Sergeant Grigoris said the driving offence was “potentially dangerous” to members of the public, with it taking place at a busy McDonald’s on Nicklin Way.
Magistrate Chris Callaghan placed Wise on 18 months’ probation and was also disqualified from driving for two-and-a-half years.
