Former lawyer Pat Lennon told the court 11 grams of methamphetamine were planted on him when he was arrested by undercover police.
Former lawyer Pat Lennon has admitted in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to previously using methamphetamine with a female client but accused the same woman of planting the drugs in his shoulder bag on the night he was arrested in South Yarra.
During Monday’s hearing, magistrate Brett Sonnet issued Lennon with a Section 128, which protected him under the Evidence Act against potential self-incrimination, after prosecutor Georgia McMaster asked if he had ever used methamphetamine with Brandman. “I was obviously upset. I said, ‘What the f---?’ She said sorry and said she put them in my bag because I was a lawyer,” Lennon told the court.He said the $6000 in cash found in the shoulder bag, and more money found at his Caulfield North home when police executed a warrant on July 14, 2020, were the legitimate proceeds of his legal practice.
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