Convicted killer Shane Mulhall to spend two years behind bars for selling meth

CONVICTED killer and standover man Shane Mulhall will serve two years in jail after he was busted for selling meth just six days after being sentenced for threatening to burn down someone’s house.

Convicted killer and standover man Shane Mulhall will serve two years in jail after he was busted for selling meth just six days after being sentenced for threatening to burn down someone’s house.

• Convicted killer pleads guilty to supplying meth in Darwin community
• Convicted killer Shane Mulhall to be sentenced for selling meth

CONVICTED killer and standover man Shane Mulhall will serve two years in jail after he was busted for selling meth just six days after being sentenced for threatening to burn down someone’s house.

The 42-year-old appeared calm as he sipped water in the dock of Darwin Supreme Court while his sentence was handed down on Tuesday.

He pleaded guilty to one count of supplying a commercial quantity of methamphetamine earlier this month.

The court heard that a police raid on Mulhall’s house in Bakewell – which uncovered about 75g of meth, almost $70,000 in cash and a ledger of meth sales – took place just six days after the father-of-six was handed a six-month wholly suspended sentence for trespass and threatening to burn down a house.

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Mulhall’s lawyer Matt Hubber told the court that his client had only become involved in the offending because of his own addiction, and was injecting meth several times a day at the time of the raid.

“The man was using drugs, he was addicted to drugs. He’s not going to suddenly be not addicted to drugs,” Mr Hubber said.

“On the ledger that was found, there was an indication that he owed almost $80,000 himself.”

However, Crown prosecutor Naomi Louden said Mulhall’s offending was sophisticated and indicative of an “established supply network”.

“This is a man who was working, he had a family life,” she said.

“He was not a man running around the streets stealing to get his next hit.

“It’s at a level that is different.”

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During sentencing, Justice Stephen Southwood said the court aimed to deter people from using meth.

“The courts have been endeavouring to send a clear message that methamphetamine is a particularly dangerous drug,” he said.

“He’s (Mulhall) got himself in a pickle as a result of starting to use it.”

Mulhall was sentenced to four years’ prison, suspended after two years served.