Mother of two admits trafficking

A MOTHER of two who admitted to trafficking marijuana and supplying methylamphetamine has narrowly avoided actual jail time.

Nicole Robyn Lamb was sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty before Toowoomba District Court, but Judge Dennis Lynch QC ordered she be released on parole immediately.

Crown prosecutor Paul Bannister told the court the now 31-year-old and a co-accused had been trafficking marijuana over a five-month period in the St George area from February 10, 2017, to July 19, 2017.

The pair had also been supplying the drug methylamphetamine during the same period, he said.

In what Mr Bannister described as “street level” drug supplies, the pair’s operation involved about 20 customers and that the offending amounted to 26 transactions, nine of which were on one day, and involved small amounts of drug for small amounts of money.

Mr Bannister said the Crown case was that Lamb had been a party to her co-accused who was considered the primary offender.

Lamb’s barrister Adrian Braithwaite said his client had had a difficult early family life and had started using marijuana at age 12.

However, his client instructed that since her arrest she had stopped using the drug and had completed a drug rehabilitation program at her own volition, he said.

His client’s involvement in the operation had been to support her own habit, Mr Braithwaite submitted.

Judge Lynch said in reaching the appropriate sentence he had taken into account Lamb’s pleas of guilty and cooperation with police.