Barrister blamed woman’s drug problem on troubled childhood

Police noticed a woman walking in a suspicious manner in Darling Heights, so they her stopped for a chat. What happened next led to the woman brought before a judge to answer a charge of supplying dangerous drugs.

INDOCHINE Alanietta Stanford-Wilson had only been before a magistrate a week earlier when police intercepted the 23-year-old in the middle of an ice delivery.

On Friday, the Toowoomba District Court heard police stopped Stanford-Wilson as she walked through Darling Heights on July 2, 2020.

The court heard Stanford-Wilson made full admission to carrying a small amount of meth and a glass pipe.

The court heard Stanford-Wilson told police her friend’s boyfriend offered to give her about $50 worth of cannabis if she took the ice to an associate.

This admission was the sole evidence used by police to bring the change of supplying a dangerous drug that landed her in the District Court.

Barrister David Jones said his client had a limited criminal history and was the victim of a troubled upbringing.

He added that the trauma of her youth led to experimenting with drugs, but that she was taking steps to address her mental health issues.

Mr Jones asked for a period of probation to aid her rehab.

“She moved away from Toowoomba to escape the traumatic memories of her childhood,” he said.

Justice Dennis Lynch noted the offending was on the lowest end of the scale and not motivated by profit.

“It was sharing drugs between friends,” he said.

Stanford-Wilson pleaded guilty to supplying a dangerous drug, along with five lesser drug charges and was ordered to serve 12 months probation.