Kelly was born in Rockhampton, lived on a cattle property, and his family moved to Mackay in 1994. Mr Morters said Kelly was from a privileged background, was given every opportunity to succeed in life, and had a good education and good family support.īarrister Paul Smith (instructed by the Brisbane-based criminal law firm of Fisher Dore Lawyers) tendered a psychological report, references, and the results of six negative drug and alcohol tests done by the family doctor since last September.

That included one payment of $8560 in cash. Over the last three months of trafficking he purchased between 15 to 180 tablets, sold them and passed between $30,000 and $36,000 in cash over to the two people. His distributor was arrested and he was then contacted by two people who threatened him and who said his distributor's debt to them was now his debt and he had to pay. He passed on money to his distributor and kept about $600 a month for living expenses. He would be contacted by SMS or mobile phone by people who would buy drugs from him. He was working for a while at a nightclub and he met a distributor and bought 20 tablets at a time and then sold them on the streets outside the clubs for $50 a tablet. He was a street-level dealer of a significant quantity of ecstasy over a protracted period of time, prosecutor David Morters said. He was jailed for three years, with a parole release date of July 24 this year, requiring him to serve four months in jail. He pleaded guilty to trafficking in ecstasy between March 28, 2007, and February 15 last year, when he was aged 19 and 20. Ian Kelly turned 21 last November and he has recently been working in a $120,000 mining job. The court also heard he had strong family support. They walked into court under the gaze of the media as a united family, fully supporting each other.ĭe-Anne and Roger held hands and comforted each other when it was disclosed in court that their son had been threatened into dealing in drugs towards the end of his offending, including a possible threat to have his head blown off.ĭe-Anne Kelly's long absences from home, doing her duties as Member for Dawson from 1996 to 2007, was described as “a significant absence from home” which may have created stress for her son as he grew up. FORMER Member for Dawson De-Anne Kelly and her husband Roger stood by their 21-year-old son Ian when he faced the Supreme Court in Mackay yesterday on a drug-trafficking charge.

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