Drug conviction

Press, 2 May 1981, Page 4

Drug conviction

A feezing worker, who admitted possessing morphine, a class B controlled drug, was fined $4OO when he appeared before Judge Fraser in the District Court. Brian David Carey, aged 34, also pleaded guilty to possessing a needle and syringe for the purpose of the commission of an offence against the Misuse of Drugs Act. The judge fined Carey $3OO on the morphine charge, and $lOO on the possession of a needle and syringe, offence. Sergeant Caldwell said at 10.30 a.m. on April 16, when the drug squad executed a search warrant at the defendant’s address, they found

the needle and syringe and a sachet of white powder under a wardrobe in his bedroom. Carey (Mr D. J. Taffs) told the police that the sachet, which he thought was heroin, had been given to him six weeks earlier by a friend. He had injected himself but had then forgotten where he had left the sachet until it was found by the police. An analysis revealed that the sachet contained 190 milligrams of morphine, said Sergeant Caldwell. The drug had been used by his client to relieve tension he was undergoing at the time, said Mr Taffs.