Vic: Judge rejects Valance break-up lead to drugs

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2009
Vic: Judge rejects Valance break-up lead to drugs

A judge has rejected suggestions HOLLY VALANCE'S former lover turned to the illegal
drug business after being shattered by the break-up of their relationship.

PETER VERVERIS has been jailed for two-and-a-half years today .. after police found
him with 417 grams of methamphetamine when they raided his Melbourne home in September
2006.

The 28 year old had recently broken up with VALANCE .. and was smoking an ice pipe
in the kitchen when police raided the home.

At a pre-sentence hearing earlier this month VERVERIS'S lawyer said his client began
using large amounts of ice following the break-up.

But Victorian County Court Judge GEOFFREY CHETTLE has today dismissed those suggestions
.. and ordered VERVERIS to serve a non-parole period of 18 months.

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