Melbourne social media addict Madeline ‘Maddie’ Scott pleads guilty to trafficking GHB: Court
A selfie obsessed Melbourne Instagram glam girl who used drugs to cure her social media addiction has been busted again for dealing GHB.
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An Instagram addicted glamour girl who turned to drugs after going “cold turkey” on social media has been busted again for dealing GHB.
Madeline ‘Maddie’ Scott, 26, pleaded guilty at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday to trafficking GHB-mirror drug 1,4 butanediol.
Scott, who also pleaded guilty to dealing with the proceeds of crime, was nabbed after cops raided her Frankston unit on January 15 this year.
The court heard police stumbled onto Scott’s racket after attending her home for an unrelated matter on January 14.
Investigators guarded the rental while they sought a search warrant for suspected stolen property unrelated to Scott.
Police searched the property, which was fitted out with multiple CCTV cameras, and discovered almost 3kg of bute stashed in a drain pipe.
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives, who searched the home while Scott was not present, also seized bute stashed in a pink Barbie case.
Police also seized bute stashed in a baby oil bottle, stolen number plates, resuscitation dolls and first aid equipment.
Cops also examined CCTV footage which showed Scott fetch drugs from her drain pipe stash multiple times between January 1 and January 14.
Scott is seen fetching her drugs while wearing pink dishwashing gloves on multiple occasions.
The footage also depicted a man going to the drain pipe stash while on the phone to a caller with a “female sounding voice”.
Police were able to hear the man speak but the unknown female caller was inaudible.
“Yeah grab it out … oh well I’ll go down the road and get a bag and I’ll come back and grab it …,” the man said.
“Where are you at? The hospital … if it’s OK by you … yeah so you want me to hold onto these until I see you?
“Yeah too easy, just tell me where your friend’s house is … yeah too easy … you trust me yeah …
“You don’t have a choice but to trust me girl … yeah, I just can’t believe commando rolled over your garage.”
The man then removes the stockings and bottles and leaves.
Scott was arrested and charged after she handed herself in on January 16.
Scott was then caught attempting to sneak meth into custody.
Ellen Murphy, for Scott, said her client was a “prolific drug user” and the racket “lacked sophistication”.
Prosecutor Chris Edwards said the “seriousness of the trafficking” was “clearly towards the higher end”.
“The quantity is significant … even accounting for what is a very significant substance abuse issues it would appear well in excess of a month’s supply of daily use …,” he said.
“There are clearly efforts to conceal her links (to the drain pipe stash) by virtue of wearing the gloves which … speaks to efforts being made by Miss Scott to avoid detection …
“(Scott made) it difficult for fingerprints to be found on them …”
The court heard Scott, who has spent 202 days on remand, had a prior conviction for a major drug trafficking rap.
Scott was handed a maximum three-year jail term in October 2020 after pleading guilty to trafficking a commercial quantity of drugs.
Scott, who was sentenced to a minimum 18 months behind bars, was pinched when she did a dodgy U-turn at Langwarrin about 4am on December 18, 2019.
Police pulled Scott over then searched her car after an officer spotted an ice pipe popping out of her pink handbag.
“Why would I let you search my vehicle?” Scott said.
“You are just picking on me because I am an ice addict.”
Scott then attempted to delete messages from her mobile phone but police intervened.
A search of the car uncovered 3kg of bute in Gatorade bottles, meth, a large amount of cash, zip-lock bags, scales and a tick book.
Scott was hauled back to Frankston police station for questioning where she admitted selling the drugs in person or via the internet to “fund her own addiction”.
“If I don’t sell it then I don’t have enough money to smoke it,” Scott told police.
“There are often times when I’ve got a whole more ice than everybody else does so, like, if there was people around me and they wanted it and they wanted to buy it off me then I would.
“I don’t make a profit at all from it … it’s just literally to fund my own ice
use … I mostly sell GHB more than ice.
“I can profit in the end, I don’t really think I make that much of a profit, to be
honest with you.
“I drops [sic] bottles of GHB around to people’s houses … often just local but … if it was going to be a big sale then I’d go further I guess.”
Scott admitted to police she had just purchased 3 litres of GHB for $2000 prior to being pulled over.
“I don’t want to drive around with that on me ‘cause then it’s not good to get
pulled over with it,” Scott said.
“The only reason I had that much GHB on me is … because it’s so far away to go and get it so I was like … oh, well, I might as well just get it now and then I don’t have to keep going back and forth to the city.”
Scott told police she sold GHB for $50 a hit and the “majority” of the cash she was caught with was from “selling drugs”.
Police also quizzed her on her tick notes.
“It means that — you know what tick means, that they’ve taken stuff in advance already,” Scott said.
“That you’ve sold them drugs in advance without money and they owe you that money back … some of it would have been GHB and some of it would have [been] gear, like ice.”
The County Court heard Scott turned to drugs after she went “cold turkey” from obsessively posting photos of herself on Instagram.
The former Mt Martha financial planner who worked at the family business had posted more than 20,000 photos on social media, the County Court heard.
Scott, who appeared via videolink from Dame Phyllis Frost, will be sentenced for her current offending on Wednesday.
