Shannen Moyle: Frankston North woman’s ice addiction
A Frankston North woman’s life spiralled out of control after a relationship breakdown. She started mixing with the wrong crowd and got hooked on the drug ice. And a magistrate has given her a stark warning.
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A woman nabbed with drugs in her home three times in six months has been warned to stay off ice or she risks her future being “hijacked and blighted by that drug”.
Shannen Moyle has been warned by a magistrate if she doesn’t “do everyone a favour” and stay away from methamphetamines she was on a “slippery slope” to spending her life full of regret and in and out of jail.
The Frankston North 26-year-old had taken a sad spiral into addiction earlier this year after splitting with a long-term partner.
She pleaded guilty to more than a dozen drug possessions, proceeds of crime and bail breach charges at Frankston Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.
On Tuesday she was sentenced to a non-conviction 12-month community corrections order with drug rehabilitation treatment and mental health counselling conditions.
She had already spent 24 days in custody on remand, and twice had to undergo COVID-19 prison quarantine.
Magistrate Gerard Lethbridge told Moyle she was being given a second chance.
“If you continue to use methamphetamines (you’ll) end up having your life hijacked and blighted by that drug,” Mr Lethbridge said.
“I only hope the time spent in custody really served as a wake-up call to show you the horrible inevitably if you continue to use (ice).
“I want you to reclaim your old life, which was a good life, a productive life; you have every prospect of successfully rehabilitating and getting your life back on track.”
Before this year Moyle had never been in trouble with the law and had been a contributing member of the community.
But then things changed; she started taking ice, she fell out with her family, got involved with drug users and ended up behind bars.
The court heard in May she was staying at a Frankston house when police found ice, weighing a total of 3g, in the bathroom and her bedroom.
In August police searched a property where she had been forbidden from going to and found Viagra pills in her handbag.
And on October 8 police again raided her home, uncovering bags of ice weighing 8g, an ecstasy pill, digital scales, and stolen bank and ID cards that had been taken in a Malvern aggravated burglary a few weeks prior.
In April police searched her bedroom and found a stolen guitar, a laptop, tobacco, phones and, bizarrely, a display stand of lighters nicked from a servo.
Her defence lawyer said her long-term relationship had broken up and Moyle began to use ice, which then led to her losing her call centre job.
She said she was “buying in bulk” to feed her .5g a day habit, but was not dealing, and denied she was involved in the burglary, saying she had found the stolen cards in a park.
Moyle cried as she agreed to the corrections order, nodding to say she promised she would be staying away from drugs in the future.
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