Jane Margaret Spiers, 44, of Underdale, was sentenced to six years in jail in the District Court of South Australia today after pleading guilty to manufacturing a controlled drug and making it for sale in 2009.
Judge Mark Griffin said Spiers had let her partner and his associates transform her housing trust home into a clandestine lab which had the potential to make 1.2kg of methylamphetamine worth between $200,000 and $600,000.
“Virtually the entire premises had been taken over by this sophisticated and elaborate manufacturing process,” Judge Griffin said.
While out on bail, she was caught making it again for her own use.
Much of Spiers childhood was disrupted by her father’s sport and she later became addicted to drugs after Reginald Spiers became involved in the illicit drug trade, the judge said.
Her father, a 1962 Commonwealth Games athlete, was sentenced to death in Sri Lanka in 1987 for drug possession, but returned to Australia to serve time after a successful appeal.
On Thursday, Judge Griffin said Spiers’ drug use had earned her a substantial criminal history and a previous jail term.
He sentenced her to six years jail with a lower than usual non-parole period of three years.
He said he hoped her efforts to rehabilitate would succeed and she would achieve her ambition of a relationship with her new granddaughter.
“I remain optimistic there’s enough incentive,” he said.
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Daughter Of Ex-Javelin Champ Jailed For Drug Use