Accused denies charges
A WOMAN accused of knowingly possessing a large amount of meth and cannabis found during a police search of the cabin in which she had been staying has taken the witness stand in her trial to deny the charges.
Tameena Anne Pacey told the Toowoomba Supreme Court that her ex-partner had arrived at her cabin in the Goondiwindi Tourist Park three days prior to the police search on March 30, 2020, and he had bags with him.
The man, who the court heard had been violent towards her, was subject to a domestic violence protection order preventing from being near Pacey, but she said she had allowed him to stay as he’d just had an argument with his new partner.
Pacey told the court she was in fear of the man.
Crown prosecutor Emily Coley, on behalf of the prosecution, made a series of admissions that the man had been convicted and jailed in the past for violence against Pacey.
Pacey told the court she had no idea that there was meth in the cabin and claimed her expartner had brought it there.
She said she also had no knowledge of loose papers which had names and dollar amounts which the Crown alleged was evidence of drug supplies.
The Crown claims police found small metal boxes inside which clip seal bags were found containing 28. 3g of substance of which 17.369g was pure amphetamine.
Also found was 132g of cannabis which Pacey said she knew her partner had brought there as she saw it and she could smell it.
Pacey has pleaded not guilty to knowingly possessing meth above 2g, possessing cannabis and drug items including scales, clips seal bags and the loose papers.
Pacey told the court when police spoke to her after the search she knew her ex-partner was just outside the door with a police officer and he was within earshot.
She said if she hadn’t implicated herself or even implicated her ex-partner she feared she would have been assaulted by him.
She said she hadn’t had the opportunity to tell police about it because though she volunteered to go to the police station that day with police, because of Covid restrictions she didn’t do the interview.
The jury is expected to retire to consider a verdict today.