Cairns crime: Narelle Kathleen Lucas pleads guilty to possessing meth

A woman with 13 drug-related convictions was re-sentenced on previous offences and sentenced anew with the prison time to be served cumulatively.

Supreme Court Justice James Henry told a woman who pleaded guilty to possessing 8.38 grams of methamphetamine “you blew it” as he re-sentenced her on a litany of previous convictions and imposed a 15 month sentence for her latest charge.

He said Narelle Kathleen Lucas was sentenced on March 29, 2022, in the Supreme Court, for cocaine possession to 100 hours community service.

“Your performance of that community service was pathetic,” Justice Henry said.

“You performed no actual hours at all.

“When I sentenced you, I predicted one of two things would happen,” he said.

“One was that you would seize the opportunity to finally break free of drugs.

Narelle Kathleen Lucas was sentenced in Cairns Supreme Court for methamphetamine possession.

“The other option, of course, was that you did not seize the opportunity I gave you, and sadly, you did not,” Justice Henry said in the sentencing remarks released in December 2023.

He noted on May 31, 2022, Lucas was put on probation for 10 drug and bail offences.

She was also handed a nine month suspended sentence for refusing to give police access to her phone, which somebody wiped while the police had it.

“You were lucky that it was wholly suspended, but it was sitting there like a hammer above you and on you went, so the hammer will fall, it will be cumulative,” he said.

He re-sentenced Lucas for convictions in March 2022 to a head sentence of six months.

She received a 15 month sentence for meth possession, to be served cumulatively, making a total of two and a half years.

Justice Henry fixed a parole date of December 12, 2023, and declared 214 days in pre-sentence custody to be time served.

Originally published as Cairns crime: Narelle Kathleen Lucas pleads guilty to possessing meth