Ice dealer 'found with 200g of meth and $8,920 cash in a Louis Vuitton bag' has his bail relaxed so he can party long into the night at a family wedding
- Jimmey Barkho, 28, is on bail charged with trafficking commercial quantity meth
- Part of his bail requires he be home by 10pm each day, he also reports to police
- He requested to have his curfew extended to stay later at family functions
A Melbourne man accused of trafficking ice has had his court-imposed curfew relaxed to allow him to attend family functions long into the night.
Jimmey Barkho, 28, is on bail charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine after police allegedly found 200g of white crystal and $8920 cash in a Louis Vuitton bag during raids in Sydenham last June.
As well as a $300,000 surety provided by his father using the family home, Barkho's bail also requires he report to police five times a week and that he be home by 10pm each day.
Jimmey Barkho, 28, is on bail after police allegedly found 200g of white crystal and $8920 cash in a Louis Vuitton bag during raids in Sydenham last June (stock image pictured)
Melbourne Magistrates Court was told on Friday that while Barkho's father is in an official mourning period after the death of a relative, it has fallen to his children to attend family functions.
The functions include two events in Melbourne and a wedding in Sydney.
Barkho's younger sister Dianne Barkho said at many functions and weddings the family have had to come up with an excuse for him to leave so he meets the curfew, or that they all have to leave together.
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She told the court it was embarrassing.
'We don't want to be getting up and leaving early,' she said.
Barkho asked the court for permission to stay out until 1am.
Police opposed the application.
Detective Senior Constable Jake Ferguson said the curfew was in place because Barkho was alleged to have been found in possession of a 'large quantity of drugs' in the early hours.
Jimmey Barkho was charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine (stock image pictured)
'I believe the accused's social calendar isn't interfered with by these curfew hours,' he added.
Barkho's lawyer Rob Melasecca said the only reason the offending allegedly occurred in the early hours was because that was the time of the police raid.
At an earlier bail hearing it was alleged Barkho was arrested while trying to flee a Sydenham home on June 13.
As well as drugs and cash, alleged to be proceeds of crime, police said they found Barkho's phone, wallet, passport and keys in the bag which he had previously been pictured wearing.
He denies the bag is his and claimed his belongings had been put in someone else's bag.
Magistrate Lance Martin said social convenience wasn't a ground for changing bail conditions.
But given his father's 40-day mourning period, and the requirement that Barkho attend functions in his father's place, the request went beyond social convenience.
He approved the extension and ordered Barkho be allowed out until 1am for the three events, but only while in the company of both his sister and older brother Joseph.
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