An man and a woman from Adelaide have been given suspended sentences after an explosion led police to discover an "unsophisticated and clearly dangerous" operation to extract cannabis oil from marijuana plants.
South Australia's District Court heard Kathleen Joanne Kevill, 38, had let Ned Kelly Voakes, 29, into her public housing unit in Camden Park to use butane to cook cannabis so that it could be made stronger.
Voakes suffered burns to 14 per cent of his body.
They both pleaded guilty to manufacturing a controlled drug after previously claiming a third person was in the unit at the time of the explosion.
District Court Judge Liesl Kudelka described the pair's operation as "extremely rudimentary, unsophisticated and clearly dangerous".
Kevill was today sentenced to one year, one month and 10 days in prison, fully suspended.
She will also have to do 80 hours of community service.
Voakes received the same sentence last week.
A condition of their three-year good-behaviour bonds will be that they stay off illicit drugs.
"I know that is going to be hard, but there are people there who are wanting to help you through the process," Judge Kudelka told Kevill.
"I have heard that you have already said yourself that you are sick of the impact of drugs upon your life and you need to deal with some of the bad things that have happened to you as well.
"You can't do that whilst you're using drugs."
"I only use pot now and very rarely," Kevill replied.
Judge Kudelka told Voakes to "get a job".
