A former beauty queen-turned-drug-dealer who suffered horrific burns when a grenade blew up in her face during a dramatic police raid has been spared jail.
Felicia Djamirze, 29, was charged with drug trafficking offences after a police operation targeted Queensland’s Fraser Coast cocaine and ice dealers last year.
The former Miss Australia International was asleep with her alleged bikie-linked partner when officers threw flash grenades into the bedroom in February 2016.
She was told by prosecutors on Monday she ‘cannot complain about the collateral damage that occurred’ during the raid, the Fraser Coast Chronicle reported.
Felicia Djamirze (pictured left prior to raid), who suffered horrific burns (right) when a grenade blew up in her face during a dramatic police raid, has been spared jail
Djamirze was a respected member of the community before she got involved with the wrong crowd, her defence counsel told Brisbane Supreme Court.
‘She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong partner. What a gross understatement that is,’ Bruce Walmsley reportedly said.
But Djamirze knew her partner at the time, Dean O’Donnell, was dealing drugs, prosecutors argued.
She was handed a three-year suspended jail term for supplying a dangerous drug, with the judge adding he didn’t expect to see her before the courts again.
The former Miss Australia International was asleep with her alleged bikie-linked partner when officers threw flash grenades into the bedroom in February 2016
Shortly after the police raid, Djamirze spoke to Channel Nine’s A Current Affair program about the incident.
‘I thought I was going to die… they left me there to burn,’ she said at the time.
‘I was in a state of shock. “Burnt, I’m burnt,” I repeated myself over and over, and I was told, “You are not burnt… you’ll be fine.”
‘I had glass all through my face, my scalp. I had glass all through in my right eye… I didn’t even know if I had a face left.’
Djamirze said she had no comment as she left court on Monday. O’Donnell is expected to be sentenced later this month.
Djamirze (right) knew her partner at the time, Dean O’Donnell (left), was dealing drugs, prosecutors argued