Former Xavier grad and adman Christopher Henderson jailed for Hawthorn drug trafficking racket

A Xavier College grad and former advertising agency guru was nabbed in Hawthorn with 150kg plus of a party drug linked to sexual assaults.

A former advertising guru peddled huge amounts of a dangerous party drug linked to drink-spiking and sexual assaults after his marriage fell apart.

Christopher Henderson, 35, was sentenced in the County Court on Wednesday to a minimum three years’ and six months’ jail after pleading guilty to multiple charges including trafficking a commercial quantity 1,4 butanediol and meth.

Henderson, from Hawthorn, was nabbed driving erratically through Camberwell on June 7, 2019.

Police stopped Henderson on Canterbury Rd just before 430am and searched his hire car.

Investigators seized a knife, multiple bottles of GHB-mirror drug 1,4 butanediol weighing almost 8kg, 80 grams of meth, scales, 40 Xanax tablets and $2,935.

A male passenger was also found slumped asleep on the front seat.

Henderson has arrested and hauled in for questioning where police discovered more meth dacked in his pants.

Police also seized a broken deal bag containing a small amount of meth in the divvy van Henderson was brought in with.

Investigators raided Henderson’s Hawthorn home later that morning and seized another seized 2.6kg grams of bute, $7800 cash from a small safe, a “quantity” of counterfeit cash, shotgun ammunition, bogus ID cards, 76 grams of meth, cocaine in a mickey mouse deal bag, and documents for a Hawthorn storage unit.

Next stop for the cops was the Burwood Rd storage unit which they hit later that afternoon.

Police seized a whopping 149.64 kilograms of bute from the unit.

Henderson, who gave a “no comment” interview, was charged and remanded.

The court heard Henderson graduated from Xavier College before commencing a business degree at Swinburne University.

Henderson left university to take up a role at cosmetics company before landing a gig at an advertising agency.

The former adman was made redundant shortly after returning from his honeymoon, the court was told.

Henderson’s marriage then hit the bricks before he eventually split with his wife in 2015.

The court heard Henderson’s mental health deteriorated and he started hitting the drugs hard.

Henderson, who also pleaded guilty to possessing counterfeit money and a weapon, was supported in court by his parents and sister.

Judge Trevor Wraight jailed Henderson for a maximum six years.

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