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Australian Woman Blows $150,000 Inheritance Money On Crystal Meth

Australian Woman Blows $150,000 Inheritance Money On Crystal Meth

Brodie Bond had fought a legal battle after she was left nothing in her father's will

Ronan O'Shea

Ronan O'Shea

A woman in Australia has spent her way through inheritance money worth AUD $150,000 (£81,400 / US $116,500) on drugs in just a year.

Brodie Bond, of Morwel, Australia, had fought a legal battle after she was left nothing in her father's will, and successfully obtained AUD $220,000 (£119,400 / US $171,000) - however the 28-year-old managed to spent a huge chunk of it on crystal meth.

According to the BBC in 2015, meth had a street value of around AUD $500 per gram, making it one hell of an expensive habit.

Speaking to Channel Nine's A Current Affair, Bond said: "Out of that money, probably $150,000 went to ice [meth], in less than a year."

In addition to meth, Bond is reported to have spent the remaining AUD $70,000 (£38,000 / US $54,400) on alcohol, clothes and a car which she crashed.

She told the TV station that she bought a huge amount of clothes in shops such as Best & Less and K-Mart, adding that she didn't regret her actions.

"Why not?" she said. "It's not every day you get that much money."

Channel Nine / A Current Affair

Bond said that she was estranged from her father at the time of his death, but believed that as 'he was still my dad' she was grieving when he passed, and felt entitled to a portion of the money he left behind.

Unfortunately, she's now severely out of pocket, having only received the money in June 2016. She says she celebrated the event with Jack Daniels and a drug-fuelled night with a friend.

An exposé in Time magazine last year cast light on the severity of the crystal meth problem in Australia, which has the highest use of methamphetamine in the English-speaking world, with around seven percent of the population having used it.

Crystal meth.
PA

After hitting the country's shores in the 90s, it has spread from cities throughout the country and use among military personnel has been revealed to be particularly high.

It has also hit rural communities - where unemployment tends to be higher - particularly hard.

Australia's geographical position plays into its meth epidemic, being as it is close to China, which has a huge number of ice labs in the Asia-Pacific region, and can therefore supply the Oceanic nation with relative ease.

While the drug is expensive, users often buy it in much smaller quantities than a gram, and it remains cheaper than alternatives such as cocaine. Moreover, alcohol is highly taxed in Australia, making the drug yet more affordable by comparison.

Featured Image Credit: Channel Nine / A Current Affair

Topics: World News, Drugs, Australia