Woman with long criminal history of drug offences fined after police found some in her car
She told the court she had been contacting a rehab facility every day to try and get off drugs.
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A woman has been warned possessing even a small amount of drugs could send her to jail after police found cannabis in her car.
Vanessa Louise Christina Horsley pleaded guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court to possessing cannabis.
The court heard police searched Horsley’s car and found a package with 0.6g of cannabis in it.
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Less than two weeks earlier Horsley, 42, had been placed on a suspended jail term for drug offences in Redcliffe court.
The court heard Horsley had undergone a detox program and had been ringing a rehabilitation centre daily to try and get in.
She told the court she was a trained horsebreaker and hoped to start a business working with horses when she was clean.
Magistrate Melanie Ho said Horsley’s eight pages of criminal history meant she was at risk of going to jail even for minor offences.
“I don’t want to see you going to jail over such a small amount (of drugs),” she said.
Horsley was fined $300.