A Blenheim mother has been sentenced to home detention for supplying ingredients for the manufacture of methamphetamine.
In Blenheim District Court yesterday, Shagin Celeste Cattermole, 26, a mother of three, was sentenced to five months' home detention on two charges of supplying material to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of cannabis and breach of community work.
Judge Denys Barry said Cattermole twice bought one-litre bottles of iodine from a Blenheim store and gave them to then partner Bevan Kelly, who was manufacturing methamphetamine.
Defence counsel Rob Harrison said iodine was a readily available product and cheap and the offending was unsophisticated.
Cattermole's main focus was her children, one of whom was about to start school and another who was two months old, he said.
Judge Barry said Cattermole had a troubled upbringing and her pre-sentence report "paints a picture where growing up, drug use was normal".
Mr Harrison said despite her upbringing Cattermole had a limited criminal history and had tried to keep her children away from Kelly's drug-using lifestyle and even lived apart from him.
A significant factor when looking at her background was that Cattermole "managed to avoid the pitfalls which plagued her parents", he said.
Judge Barry said Cattermole's role was as a "satellite offender on the periphery of the operation" and gave credit for her early guilty plea and limited history.
The offending was relatively unsophisticated, but was a vital ingredient in manufacture of a drug "that spreads misery amongst the community", he said.
"Despite having three young dependent children you still embarked on this offending which put their futures at risk," he said.
Cattermole was ordered to have alcohol and drug counselling.
The Marlborough Express
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