Charity founder, Tik Tok star Conan Visser gets suspended jail sentence for cocaine supply

A children’s charity founder and Tik Tok star has been given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to supplying cocaine to friends while on bail after being charged with assaulting his then-girlfriend.

A disgraced children’s charity founder and TikTok documentary maker, who supplied cocaine to friends, has been given a wholly suspended nine-month jail sentence.

Conan Visser, who started the former anti-bullying children’s charity I Can I Will, pleaded guilty to seven counts of supplying a dangerous drug and one of drug possession.

Visser, 37, who has attracted 22 million views to his TikTok social media platform documentary series on the effects on his body of drinking alcohol, was paid for the drugs he supplied.

Crown prosecutor, Kimberley Thomas, said Visser sourced cocaine for friends and sold it in a social context, but there was a commercial element.

Visser supplied cocaine, ranging from half a gram to two grams, to friends on seven occasions over a two-month period, and was found with .16 of a gram of substance containing cocaine.

Conan Visser leaves the Supreme Court of Queensland in Brisbane.

He was on bail for offences of violence at the time, including an assault on his then girlfriend, and days after he was released on bail on the cocaine charges, he engaged in harassment, the court heard.

Judge Leanne Clare said Visser’s arrest followed three months of police surveillance of a regular cocaine supplier.

She said when that dealer was arrested Visser bought cocaine for himself and friends from someone else.

Judge Clare said it was clear that Visser had substances with which to cut the drugs which he shared socially, getting reimbursed by some friends.

The court heard Visser, a former personal trainer, had a history of focusing on personal fitness.

Defence counsel Chris Minnery said Visser had received government funding for his documentary series, exploring the mental and physical effects of alcohol use.

Mr Minnery said the successful series, which explored the health effects on Visser of consuming alcohol every day for a month, attracted 22 million views in the first 20 weeks.

But Judge Clare said while Visser’s focus on health and fitness was an inspiration to others, it was important to state publicly that cocaine was a dangerous drug.

“It is an assault on the minds and bodies of those that use it,” Judge Clare told Visser.

“Notwithstanding your offending was not profit-driven when you were sharing cocaine, it was serious.”

In 2020, Visser was given a 12-month sentence to be served as an intensive correction order in the community for domestic violence-related offences.

He forced his way into his then girlfriend’s home during the night and assaulted her, putting his hand around her throat and later slapping her on her face.

He was sentenced to a prison term in June, last year, for using a carriage service to harass the woman in a threatening manner, Ms Thomas says.

Mr Minnery said following media attention about the 2020 sentence, Visser received online death threats and hit rock bottom and a psychologist diagnosed depression.

But Judge Clare said while on the intensive correction order Visser said he was not interested in domestic violence counselling and did not do much of the training he was told to do.

She sentenced Visser to nine months’ jail, immediately suspended, for an operational period of two years and recorded the convictions.