Also located was $8970 cash, of which $5000 was to be forfeited to the Crown.
Irwin was sentenced in Gisborne District Court by Judge Warren Cathcart.
For Irwin, counsel Michael Lynch submitted she had now shown some insight and remorse for her offending. She appreciated the harm it had caused to this community.
Circumstances leading to Irwin’s offending included her upbringing and exposure to drugs at home from a young age, violence, domestic abuse, and the recent death of her grandmother.
Judge Cathcart said such factors, sadly, often featured in the backgrounds of offenders who appeared in the Gisborne court.
From a starting point of 57 months, the judge applied an uplift of three months in recognition of the police-laid charges, which arose while Irwin was on bail for the Crown-laid matters.
The judge allowed discounts of four months for remorse and personal circumstances and 20 percent for Irwin’s guilty pleas.
The sentence included an uplift of one month to cover Irwin’s fines debt of $9816 which, along with a community work sentence, was cancelled.
