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A MUM has been told by Queenslandâs Chief Judge to get off drugs because her ânonsenseâ kept resulting in her getting into trouble with the law.
New drug related convictions mean the Gatton woman again breached a suspended jail sentence imposed for a trafficking offence in 2017.
Chief Judge Brian Devereaux SC warned Melissa Francis this week that her drug use would inevitably result in her going back to jail.
Melissa Leanne Francis, 36, pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended sentence at Ipswich District Court.
Office of Director of Public Prosecutions legal officer Chantel Phillips said Francis had been sentenced by an Ipswich judge in September 2018 for the drug trafficking committed in 2017.
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Subscriber only A Lockyer woman said she stole three charity donation tins from a supermarket because she had no money to pay for a taxi, despite just buying cigarettes. The Brave Companion Dog Rescue and Cancer Council tins at Laidley IGA were pinched by Melissa Lynette Dixon on April 28. The 34-year-old put the first tin under her jumper when staff were distracted by her cigarette order about 11.46am. She exited the store with the tin but returned to the supermarket 35 minutes later and once again nicked a further two tins by stuffing them under her jumper. In the Gatton Magistrates Court on May 24, police prosecutor Sergeant Tim Hutton said CCTV footage was used to identify Dixon.
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