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Saturday, February 14, 2009
© The Cairns Post
No worries: Convicted drug runner Justin Heal leaves court yesterday.
A DRUG trafficker bragged he had no regrets about his past after being allowed to walk free from a Cairns court yesterday.
Justin Warren Heal, 20, also said he was "f... rapt" at Supreme Court Justice Stanley Jones’ decision to sentence him to four years' jail with immediate parole after pleading guilty to seven counts of drug trafficking, possession and unlawful supply.
"It means I'm free," Heal said outside the court, as he embraced family members and friends who had supported him at yesterday's hearing.
"I get to walk away from here free.
"I have no regrets about anything in my life because it's put me on the path I'm on now."
Just minutes earlier, Justice Jones had firmly told the young man he was not being "let off".
"You are not walking free, you'll have that hanging over your head for four years," he said.
Justice Jones also recorded a conviction.
Heal was one of a number of young drug runners arrested during operation Foxtrot Size, a covert police investigation in late 2008 that targeted suppliers of party drugs.
He was nabbed after selling 99 ecstasy pills, 30 LSD tablets and 7g of speed in three separate deals to the total value of $4700 to an undercover officer between October 5 and 15.
At the time, Heal told the officer he could get better quality dope "straight from the cook" if required.
A further 0.15g of speed, digital scales, a bong and a handwritten "tick list" of drug customers were found during a search of his Mt Sheridan flat on December 11.
During the hearing, Heal's barrister Greg Lynham said his client had "gone off the rails" after his father's death in 2003, causing the formerly gifted scholar who wanted to be an engineer to drop out of school at the end of year 11 and move out of home to live with older friends, where he started using and supplying drugs.
Since giving up drugs 15 months ago, Heal was emerging from "a very dark period" and had done a traineeship with a roofer with an aim to get his own licence.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/02/14/28655_local-news.html
Saturday, February 14, 2009
© The Cairns Post
No worries: Convicted drug runner Justin Heal leaves court yesterday.
A DRUG trafficker bragged he had no regrets about his past after being allowed to walk free from a Cairns court yesterday.
Justin Warren Heal, 20, also said he was "f... rapt" at Supreme Court Justice Stanley Jones’ decision to sentence him to four years' jail with immediate parole after pleading guilty to seven counts of drug trafficking, possession and unlawful supply.
"It means I'm free," Heal said outside the court, as he embraced family members and friends who had supported him at yesterday's hearing.
"I get to walk away from here free.
"I have no regrets about anything in my life because it's put me on the path I'm on now."
Just minutes earlier, Justice Jones had firmly told the young man he was not being "let off".
"You are not walking free, you'll have that hanging over your head for four years," he said.
Justice Jones also recorded a conviction.
Heal was one of a number of young drug runners arrested during operation Foxtrot Size, a covert police investigation in late 2008 that targeted suppliers of party drugs.
He was nabbed after selling 99 ecstasy pills, 30 LSD tablets and 7g of speed in three separate deals to the total value of $4700 to an undercover officer between October 5 and 15.
At the time, Heal told the officer he could get better quality dope "straight from the cook" if required.
A further 0.15g of speed, digital scales, a bong and a handwritten "tick list" of drug customers were found during a search of his Mt Sheridan flat on December 11.
During the hearing, Heal's barrister Greg Lynham said his client had "gone off the rails" after his father's death in 2003, causing the formerly gifted scholar who wanted to be an engineer to drop out of school at the end of year 11 and move out of home to live with older friends, where he started using and supplying drugs.
Since giving up drugs 15 months ago, Heal was emerging from "a very dark period" and had done a traineeship with a roofer with an aim to get his own licence.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/02/14/28655_local-news.html
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