Tuggeranong drug dealer Natalie Marie Hyde, 41, in court on meth and taser charges
Tuggeranong drug dealer Natalie Hyde, 41, is likely to score a public housing upgrade and not do any more jail time, a court has heard
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A convicted drug dealer who had more than 300 hits of ice in her bedside drawer when police showed up on her doorstep might only serve a day in jail for her crimes, a court has heard.
Natalie Marie Hyde, 41, appeared in the ACT Supreme Court on Thursday.
She has previously pleaded guilty to trafficking meth, possessing the tainted cash and possessing tasers.
Hyde’s public housing flat in Gordon was raided in September last year, when police found $6100 cash, two freezer bags with 33g of the drug in them, two tasers and two sets of digital scales.
Hyde was at the time out on a suspended sentence — for trafficking meth and cannabis — and was in breach of three good behaviour bonds for possessing meth, cannabis and the proceeds of crime.
Prosecutors have argued Hyde ought to serve more jail time than the one night in custody she did on remand before being given Magistrates Court bail.
The court on Thursday heard Hyde is at a Salvation Army rehab facility and is hopeful public housing authorities will give her a better, “more suitable” place to live before she is released from a halfway house to live back at home late this year or early next year.
Chief Justice Helen Murrell — who has previously indicated head sentences — on Thursday adjourned Hyde’s case to December to see how she progresses in rehab.