Dealer jailed for selling meth to friends to fund his own habit

A HUSBAND caught with 100 grams of methamphetamine and 600gm of cannabis he was selling to his friends to fund his own drug habit has been jailed for two years.

Jeffrey Drennan, 42, pleaded guilty to supplying commercial quantities of the drugs and was sentenced in the Supreme Court last week.

In arguing for Drennan’s sentence to be suspended, his lawyer Matt Hubber said his client was only dealing to a small group of friends and wasn’t making a profit “apart from what was spent on drugs”.

Mr Hubber said Drennan’s wife would likely lose her job if her husband went to jail and would not be able to keep up with rental payments on the family home.

“He wasn’t doing it for the purposes of accruing large amounts of money,” he said.

“His wife can’t afford to pay the rent, there’s no Ferrari in the driveway.”

But prosecutor Stephen Geary said Drennan “should have thought about that when he was involved in selling illicit drugs” and that his wife would have access to social welfare in his absence “whether he has a Ferrari in the driveway or not”.

“We’re not living in Dickens’ London,” he said.

“Whether it’s feeding his addiction or not, at the end of the day it’s greed.”

Justice Graham Hiley sentenced Drennan to five years, to be suspended after two years.