Wollert drug dealer Mitchell Henwood sentenced for meth and GHB trafficking

A Wollert man was assessed as a “high risk” of reoffending after he slung meth the day he was bailed for serious drug charges.

Mitchell Henwood pleaded guilty to drug offences. Facebook.

A Wollert man was nabbed trafficking meth and GHB after he was bailed for serious drug offences.

Mitchell Henwood, 29, was sentenced in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday to a minimum nine months’ jail after pleading guilty to trafficking meth and bute.

Henwood was pinched in Greensborough with more than 50gf of meth and $32,000 cash on September 15 last year.

The drug dealer was also nabbed at Wollert with meth.

Henwood was charged and bailed by police but went back to trafficking the very same day, Magistrate Mia Stylianou said.

Police caught up with Henwood again on October 1 when he was nabbed with more meth, $1650 cash and 222g of 1,4-butanediol – a chemical liquid widely sold as deadly party drug GHB.

This time Henwood remained behind bars to face court last week.

Magistrate Stylianou said Henwood “astonishingly” trafficked meth the same day he was released from custody.

“You’ve involved in some really serious offending,” she said

“It (meth) can destroy the lives of people like you.”

The court heard Henwood came from a “supportive” family some of whom attended each court appearance.

It was submitted Henwood was struggling at the time of his offending with the death of his father, a car accident and the breakdown of a relationship.

Henwood got into a new relationship where ice use was “rampant”, the court was told.

An expert assessed Henwood as a “high risk” of reoffending.

The prosecutor called for an immediate jail term.

“There are significant amount of drugs and cash involved,” the prosecutor said.

Henwood, who pleaded guilty to eight charges including deal with the proceeds of crime, was jailed for a maximum 18 months.

He had spent 197 days in custody.

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