Tom Brockley: Victorian student to fight drug charges after allegedly supplying meth, LSD, and DMT
A Victorian student has been slapped with additional drug charges after police allege he supplied a cocktail of drugs while on a skydiving trip to the Far South Coast town of Eden, including meth, cocaine, and ketamine. Find out what happened in court.
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A Victorian student has been slapped with additional drug charges after police allege he supplied a cocktail of drugs while on a sky diving trip to the Far South Coast town of Eden, including meth, cocaine, and ketamine.
Tom Brockley pleaded not guilty at the Batemans Bay Local Court on Monday to six charges of supplying a prohibited drug.
Police allege the 26-year-old RMIT student and Melbourne labourer supplied a range of hallucinogenic and party drugs on May 14, including 13g of ketamine, 14g of cocaine, 0.41g of DMT, LSD, methamphetamine, and 0.41g Dextroamphetamine, a form of ADHD medication.
Brockley is further charged with allegedly possessing Dextroamphetamine and about $5850 in cash believed to be the proceeds of crime.
Police also allege that Brockley was driving on Imlay St, a main arterial route in Eden, with cocaine and meth in his oral fluid.
Moruya lawyer Lisa Stone told Magistrate David O’Connor on Monday pleas of guilty were initially entered in May, but were revoked.
“We have been in negotiations with police and what was supposed to happen has not,” she said.
“Instead, police have now charged him with an additional four sequences. “
As a result, Ms Stone said the matter would be again referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
“On that basis, we will be withdrawing our pleas of guilty,” she said.
“The fresh charges are additional (...) there is no way he could be found guilty. Some of the sequences are even double-ups.
“Hopefully what will happen is that there will be some common sense.”
Magistrate O’Connor told the court the matter had already been referred once more to the DPP.
Brockley will return to the Batemans Bay Local Court on September 12.
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