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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

Prison friends' coercion a 'fanciful' excuse for large meth lab: prosecutor

The operation of the meth lab was at a 40-hectare rural property southeast of Canberra. Picture: NSW Police

A fly-in, fly-out meth cooker's claim that his prison friends coerced him into setting up a large-scale clandestine drug lab near Canberra is "fanciful" and that he went into the operation with his "eyes wide opened", a prosecutor has said.

Luke Drever, 40, and Kevin Reilly, 41, are before the Queanbeyan District Court after pleading guilty to manufacturing a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug on January 9-11 in 2020.

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