A 35-year-old mother has escaped a harsher sentence of home detention for supplying ingredients to manufacture P because one of her children requires constant medical care.
Former Blenheim woman Lavinia May van Duin, who now lives in Nelson, was sentenced to five months' community detention for supplying material to manufacture methamphetamine and burglary at the Blenheim District Court yesterday. She was also placed under a 12-month supervision order, and ordered to undertake 120 hours' community work and pay reparation of $380.17.
Judge Bruce Davidson said the only reason van Duin received community detention was to allow her to take care of her child who had regular hospital appointments.
Van Duin supplied iodine and caustic soda twice to a methamphetamine maker between January and March this year.
On the second occasion, the material could have made between four and five grams of the drug, which had a street value of between $4000 and $5000, the judge said.
Van Duin and another associate also burgled the same house twice in one day on May 10, he said.
When sentencing van Duin, Judge Davidson said it was hard to ignore her personal circumstances.
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