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A doting Australian mother of five with a tragic recent past will remain behind bars to avoid returning to the stress of home-schooling her children because it ignited a spiral into drugs and crime.
Zara Xenitopoulos, 40, of Kingsville, Melbourne, told Heidelberg Magistrates Court that in early 2020 she 'relapsed' on meth and committed several property crimes to fund her revived habit.
Her defence lawyer Sam Norton reportedly told the court her desperate decline into drugs and selling stolen goods was due to the pressures of home-schooling four of her children.
The court heard Xenitopoulos criminal behaviour was only 'recent'.
Her brother died at just 34 in 2016, only two years after her father passed away at 57.
Zara Xenitopoulos, 40, of Kingsville, Melbourne, told Heidelberg Magistrates Court that in early 2020 she 'relapsed' on meth and committed several property crimes to fund her revived habit
Xenitopoulos's lawyer cited the pressure of home-schooling four of her children as a reason for her desperate spiral into drug abuse and property crime to pay for it. She opted to remain in jail rather than apply for bail and return to home-schooling duties
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