A former bikini model has spent just one day in prison after being caught hiding a bag of ice inside her shorts during a drug sting last year.
Asher Ruth DeRouffignac had her 23 month sentence for supply and possession of meth suspended on Friday because she had a high chance of rehabilitation, the Supreme Court in Darwin heard.
The 29-year-old avoided jail after pleading guilty last month to trafficking 17.5 grams of meth and possessing drugs in the northern suburb of Malak in August.
Asher DeRouffignac (pictured) spent just one day in prison after being caught hiding a bag of ice inside her shorts during a drug sting last year
The court heard the mother-of-one was identified by police after they recorded her discussing drug deals to a friend inside a car, whose phone had been tapped by police.
As an officer approached her, she put a clip-seal bag containing ice down the front of her pants, where it stayed until she later moved it to her mouth.
She refused to spit the bag out but eventually did, before admitting to buying and selling the drugs for the main target of the investigation.
Chief Justice Michael Grant said on Friday the woman had ‘not been able to control her impulsiveness until recently’ but had ‘taken steps to change her ways’, NT News reported.
The court heard the mother-of-one (pictured) was identified by police after they recorded her discussing drug deals to a friend inside a car, whose phone had been tapped by police
Chief Justice Michael Grant said in court (pictured) Friday the woman had ‘not been able to control her impulsiveness until recently’ but had ‘taken steps to change her ways’
‘You’ve been given such a sentencing disposition because I believe that despite your criminal history you can be successful on probation in the community,’ he said.
‘If you comply with the conditions of your suspended sentence there’s some prospect of you successfully completing your period of rehab.’
Justice Grant added DeRouffignac should adhere to her strict bail conditions otherwise face potential jail time.
‘Steps that you’ve already taken demonstrate that you want to turn you life around and lead a lawful existence,’ he said.
Justice Grant added DeRouffignac (pictured) should adhere to her strict bail conditions otherwise face potential jail time
‘However you need to very clearly understand that the conditions I have imposed on you are to be very strictly enforced.’
De Rouffignac once modelled for the Sunday Territorian.
In 2011, she told the publication of her dream to travel. ‘There’s an endless list of places I want to see,’ she said.
‘Now I’m getting older I’ve got to grab the bull by the horns.’