A mother-of-six who ran a methamphetamine supply operation from her Howlong home with her partner has been jailed for three years.
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Crystal Lamont must serve a minimum of two years behind bars before becoming eligible for parole.
That came after she previously pleaded guilty to a substantive charge of supplying a large quantity of methamphetamine on an ongoing basis.
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The sentence is identical to that handed down to her partner, Armin Fejziz, on April 23.
While Director of Public Prosecutions representative Aaron Thomas submitted to District Court judge Sean Grant on Tuesday that the pair's level of offending was quite similar, the court accepted that Fejziz's matters were more serious.
He had supplied 244 grams of methamphetamine on 23 separate occasions, while Lamont supplied 176.55 grams of "ice" in 11 transactions, all between June 18 and July 16, 2019.
But Fejziz's sentence of three years with a minimum of two came after the starting point of a four-year term was reduced by 25 per cent because of his early guilty plea.
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However, Lamont was entitled to only a 10 per cent discount as she pleaded guilty as the allegations laid against her were about to proceed to trial.
Judge Grant said what had also contributed to Fejziz's sentence was the fact he had two supply matters included as form one matters.
That meant he was spared convictions for these charges, which nevertheless were taken into account in his overall sentence for the main ongoing supply charge.
Judge Grant suggested Fejziz could justifiably feel aggrieved if he didn't receive a sentence discounted to a much greater extent than that of Lamont, who was also jailed on Tuesday for three counts of supply a prohibited drug, namely 56 grams of cannabis, 18 grams of methamphetamine and 6.76 grams of MDMA or ecstasy.
"I do accept her objective seriousness was less than Mr Fejziz," he said.
Nevertheless, he said a "consistent message of deterrence is necessary in drug-supply cases".
Judge Grant said anyone who chose to commit such crimes "will go to jail for a long period of time".
Lamont, 38, will be eligible for parole on August 14, 2021.
Fejziz, the father of four of her children, will go straight into mandatory detention on completion of his sentence, in readiness for his deportation to Bosnia.
