David Lefu sentenced to jail after Defqon. 1 drug dealing bust

The party is officially over for festival pill peddlers as a Sydney magistrate slapped a convicted drug dealer with a full-time jail sentence.

David Lefu enters Sutherland court after being caught with drugs at Defcon 1. Picture: John Grainger

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The party is officially over for festival pill peddlers as a Sydney magistrate slapped a convicted drug dealer with a full-time jail sentence.

The court has delivered one of its harshest punishment yet for Defqon. 1 drug dealer David Lefu, 26, who will spend at least four months in jail after he pleaded guilty to prohibited drug supply at the notorious hardstyle festival in Penrith.

Sutherland Local Court Magistrate Jayeann Carney sentenced the Alfords Point man to nine months’ imprisonment in total after he was found with more than 100 pills at the Penrith festival on September 26 last year.

David Lefu at Sutherland Local Court. Picture: John Grainger

Two red pills stamped with the Defqon. 1 logo were among 126 capsules in Lefu’s possession at the festival where two people tragically died last year.

Lefu told police he knew he was “busted” after a security guard spotted him in the middle of a deal with a man wearing a Bunnings Warehouse straw hat.

“The bag showed a weight of 13.4g and contained 13 smaller, clear resealable bags with purple strips across the top,” the agreed police facts stated.

“In total, there were 126 units of drugs: 74 capsules containing a yellowish crystal-like substance, 46 grey-coloured triangle shaped tablets, two red-coloured Defqon. 1 shaped tablets and four round white tablets with 0.5g embossed into one side.”

David Lefu at Sutherland Local Court. Picture: John Grainger

Lefu told arresting officers “I’m in a lot of trouble, they are mine”.

“I bought (the pills) months ago, I’ve been holding onto them,” Lefu told police.

Lefu had taken three pills himself before arriving at Defqon. 1, after spending months planning to deal the drugs for about $35 each.

Edensor Park man Joseph Pham and Melbourne woman Diana Nguyen both tragically died at Defqon. 1 due to drug overdoses.

The St George Shire Standard does not suggest Lefu supplied pills to either Mr Pham or Ms Nguyen at Defqon. 1 last year.