FORMER Corowa man Bradley Peter Kilner lost his job through amphetamine use and received a four-month jail term in August for supplying drugs.
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Kilner received an overall term of eight months from magistrate Tony Murray and spent 15 days in Junee jail, which he described as “frightening”.
He was released on bail after lodging a severity appeal and appeared in the District Court at Albury yesterday where he explained his drug downfall.
But he has been to see a doctor, received a referral to Odyssey House at Molyullah, and is booked into a six-week course starting on December 8.
Solicitor Paul Robb yesterday asked Judge Richard Cogswell to defer Kilner’s appeal until after his rehabilitation period.
Judge Cogswell said Kilner, 23, of Elizabeth Street, Wahgunyah, is still a young man and did not commit any offences until aged 22.
He needs to show his life is back on track for Judge Cogswell to impose a suspended sentence when Kilner appears in Sydney on February 27.
Kilner was living on the second floor above a shop in Corowa’s main street earlier this year.
Drug squad detectives from Albury had the premises under surveillance about 11.25am on June 10.
They saw Kilner and two other men in a vehicle, approached and identified themselves before seeing a pipe for smoking ice.
Kilner’s phone was ringing and police found messages about supplying ice along with another revealing he had a $3000 drug debt.
There were surveillance cameras around his unit and police found “tick lists” with names and amounts of money owed.
Kilner admitted supplying drugs at least six times in the previous two months usually for $100 or $200 each time.
He would generally get an eight-ball (1.7 grams) for about $800 and sell some to support his own habit.
When questioned by Judge Cogswell about the surveillance cameras, Kilner said he had installed them in a back carport, at the back door, the front and in a stairwell.
“Did it have something to do with your drug dealing?” Judge Cogswell asked.
“No,” replied Kilner.
Judge Cogswell asked about the tick lists and Kilner said: “I assume they were mine.”
Mr Robb said Kilner had been employed for five years and lost his job in September last year through his drug use.