The Snitch: Barrister’s daughter pleads guilty to dealing drugs from parents’ home

The daughter of a recently retired barrister has pleaded guilty to drug supply, after she was caught plying her trade in the back laneway of her parents’ palatial inner-west home.

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New details have emerged about the illegal backyard business dealings conducted by the 21-year-old daughter of a Sydney barrister.

Genevieve Horsely, who recently pleaded guilty to drug supply, was living in her parents’ palatial inner-west home when she was caught plying her trade in the back laneway.

Genevieve Horsley was selling drugs from the back of her parents’ home.

Court documents reveal the back gate to the terrace family home, where her recently retired barrister father Richard Horsley lived, was a revolving door for minor drug transactions.

There is no suggestion her parents knew what was occurring.

MDMA was the prized product, but Horsley — who operated under the code name Gucci Grey — offered acid tabs for $30 a pop or Xanax at $10 each.

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After taking an order over Facebook Messenger, the buyer — who was actually working for the police — was instructed to wait for Horsley behind her home. She would emerge from the wooden sliding gate at the back of her home with MDMA caps in her hot little hand.

When police raided her family home in August last year, they found she was also cultivating a cannabis plant in her bedroom cupboard. Horsley will be sentenced on Thursday.

ROXY’S DEAL

Sydney PR queen Roxy Jacenko has issued an ultimatum to the currency trader she accused of vandalising her office: Pay the bill for my lawyers and agree to a gagging order or I will launch another court case against you.

In June, Ms Jacenko had her lawyers send a letter to the man she has accused of a harassment campaign — which included graffitiing “Roxy is a c. t” on her Paddington office — demanding he hand over $14,161.

Roxy Jacenko at Waverley Local Court this week. Picture: Matrix

Anthony Hess, also at Waverley Local Court. Picture: Matrix

The figure covered the amount Ms Jacenko claims she owes her lawyers employed to take out an apprehended violence order against bitcoin trader Anthony Hess, who has denied having anything to do with the vandalism.

The letter also demanded Mr Hess agree to the terms of the AVO Ms Jacenko is seeking against him in Waverley Local Court, and that he not discuss the matter with third parties, including the media.

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It also came with a warning. That was if Mr Hess failed to comply by June 20, Ms Jacenko would sue him for the damage and clean-up cost of the graffiti.

Asked if his client would accept the conditions, Mr Hess’s lawyer Brett Galloway said: “No, we’re not going to do that. Her application has no legs … If it did, the police would have taken out an AVO for her. As far as the strength of this case goes, the writing is on the wall.”

The case will return to court on November 21,

BIG SHAKE-UP

The Traffic and Highway Patrol Command was declared an independent state seven years ago but it could be facing annexation.

Big changes could be ahead for the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command.

According to a memo sent by a superintendent to all traffic cops this week, Deloitte has been commissioned to review the mammoth command.

Despite the superintendent’s attempt to discourage “water cooler talk, meal room rumours or innuendo”, some officers suspect this is a step towards the old world order — disbanding the command and putting traffic cops back under the reign of local police areas.

This would be a backflip on a 2011 shake-up that saw the establishment of the THPC in the first place.

CHAMBER CHAT

Murmurs are circulating around the courts that a judge has been referred for investigation over the conduct of a criminal case.

Worse still, we’re told it allowed a criminal accused of a vile act to walk free.

Snitch hears the case was under way when a problem emerged with the evidence given by an alleged victim in the case.

Has a judge been referred for investigation over the conduct of a criminal case?

We understand the judge attempted to solve the problem by calling the lead police investigator on the case into their chambers in an effort to sort out the issue with the victim’s evidence.

This is a cardinal sin during a court case.

The major problem being that the defence lawyers weren’t invited to the meeting in the judge’s chambers. So even if nothing untoward happened during the meeting between the judge and the cop (and there’s no suggestion that it did), there was also no way to prove that it hadn’t.

A separate issue resulted in the jury being discharged. But we’re told the meeting in the judge’s chambers figured heavily in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ decision to not run the trial for a second time. The accused was off the hook.

Snitch sent questions to the judge and the court’s hierarchy, who refused to answer any questions on the issue.

The ODPP was similarly tight-lipped, only offering a statement that left us wondering if the judge was now the subject of a complaint to the NSW Judicial Commission.

“This office’s reasons for discontinuing a matter are subject to legal professional privilege and cannot be disclosed. In circumstances where this matter has also been the subject of a referral by this office, this office declines to offer any comment,” the statement read.

Stay tuned.

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Originally published as The Snitch: Barrister’s daughter pleads guilty to dealing drugs from parents’ home