Cassie Moore: Matt Green’s partner sentenced for meth bust

A Redlands woman has faced the Supreme Court two months after her partner, with her mother’s partner also sentenced as part of the sting.

A Redlands mother-of-three gave her fiance an ultimatum, the methamphetamine or me, two months before a police sting which snared three family members, including herself, a court has heard.

Victoria Point woman Cassandra Amie Moore, 29, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday to three charges.

They included possessing a commercial quantity of ice, and possessing small amounts of MDMA and Diazepam.

The court heard a police search warrant was executed on properties at Thornlands and Ormiston on April 8, 2019, which led to Moore, Moore’s mother’s partner, Thornlands man Justin Lee Hope, 50, and Moore’s fiance, Matthew James Green, 32, all being charged with a variety of offences.

A fourth person was also charged with offences stemming from the search warrants.

Inside the Thornlands property, occupied by Green and Moore, police uncovered a variety of drugs and drug paraphernalia which included 6.2g of meth at about 75 per cent purity, 0.2g of MDMA and two Diazepam tablets.

Victoria Point couple Matthew James Green, 32, and Cassandra Amie Moore, 29. Picture: Facebook

The court heard Moore had twice before been before the courts for low-level drug possession.

She escaped convictions both times.

But this time she was not so lucky and was sentenced on the basis of “occupier’s liability”, namely that she ought to have known dangerous drugs were being harboured in her home.

Defence counsel John Jacob told the court his client, a mother of three who attended Wynnum State High School, voluntarily attended drug counselling in August 2018 and kicked her habit.

Moore thought Green had stopped using as a result of an ultimatum she gave two months’ prior to the search warrant’s execution, Mr Jacob said, and was “as shocked as anyone’’ when they were raided.

“Green (who was supporting Moore in court) is aware Ms Moore is in court largely because of him,” Mr Jacob said.

He told the court his client was studying to become a youth drug and alcohol counsellor to prevent people going down the same path as her.

Judge Helen Bowskill placed Moore on 12 months’ probation.

No convictions were recorded.

Green was previously sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with immediate release on parole.

However, he had a worse criminal history than Moore and was also charged with supplying meth on a number of occasions.

Hope was handed a custodial sentence for possessing a commercial quantity of methamphetamine.

He was paroled on January 29 this year.

A fourth person’s charges will be mentioned in Brisbane today.