Rachel Enright: Nyngan ice dealer facing jail time

A mum of three who turned to dealing ice to fund her habit was busted when cops found drugs in her undies, however her lawyer says she’s not a ‘drug king pin’.

The parents of a desperate drug addict who became a dealer to fund her habit have been asked to front court and help their daughter avoid time behind bars.

Police caught Rachell Maree Enright with 13.62 grams of methylamphetamine, also known as the drug ice, when they stopped her in a car on Wheelers Lane in Dubbo on February 17 last year.

Rachel Maree Enright pleaded guilty to drugs charges. Picture: Facebook

In court documents, police said the 34-year-old Nyngan woman had the ice in her underpants and initially claimed it belonged to another man who was in the car with her at the time.

She told police the man threw the bag of ice to her before she was pulled up, however DNA evidence obtained from the bag revealed the man had not touched the bag.

The ice found during the car stop was not all Enright had her hands on, police revealed in court documents.

In the four months before the car stop, Enright came to the attention of Strike Force Akoohna police who had been investigating break and enters on rural properties and reports of stolen firearms.

After police tapped Enright’s phone they discovered she had sold 30.75 grams of ice to various customers who would deposit payments into her Commonwealth Bank account in exchange for the drug.

When Enright’s home was searched in March last year after the car stop, more ice was found inside a purse in her laundry.

She was charged with two counts of taking part in the supply of a prohibited drug and one count of dealing with $250 believed to be the proceeds of crime found during the search of her home.

After pleading guilty to the charges, Enright appeared in the District Court at Dubbo for a sentencing hearing.

Defence lawyer Jai Silkman said Enright was working as a cleaner and had sought help for the drug habit she sold ice to fund.

“It’s not as if Ms Enright is some major drug king pin, she’s a mother of three,” he told the court.

“We’re not talking about large quantities of drugs, or in my submission, a substantial number of supplies.

“At the time she had no conviction on her record.. she’s very quickly engaged in drug and alcohol counselling off her own back.”

Rachel Enright’s actions beggared belief, Judge Nanette Williams said. Picture: Facebook

Prosecutor Jonathan May said Enright’s crimes should not be understated.

“She was actively involved in the business of supply, she’s made it a business,” Mr May said.

While weighing up a potential custodial sentence or term of imprisonment to be served in the community, Judge Nanette Williams said Enright deserved credit for holding down a job and seeking professional help for her drug problem.

“The level of ice use in regional NSW is staggering,” Judge Williams said.

“I see the effects of it, it is so much part of the fabric of society, there is a need for it to be eradicated.

“This is our community and one of my roles in the sentencing exercise is to ensure the community’s safe and it can never be safe when people peddle ice in the community.”

The community needed to be deterred from following in Enright’s footsteps, Judge Williams said.

“Any mother whose peddling such insidious material and putting it into a community where her own children live ... to me it beggars belief ... knowing the destruction ice does.

“There is nothing to attenuate the real need for general deterrence.

“I think the court would be assisted by hearing further evidence from her parents.”

Enright and her lawyer agreed to ask her parents to give evidence in April when the case next returns to court.