A man who texted his girlfriend that it was “ridiculous how easy crime is” after importing MDMA and amphetamine has been sentenced to 312 hours of community service.

Luis Miguel Gomes Bonamy, 32, was given the sentence as a direct alternative to a prison sentence.

His girlfriend, Jessica De Oliveira Lima, 34, was sentenced to 90 hours of community service when the pair appeared in the Royal Court on Friday.

The court heard that customs officers on duty at Jersey Post Headquarters on 12 July last year selected a package for examination, and discovered a single lime green tablet and a packet containing white powder inside.

The tablet turned out to be ecstasy and the white powder contained amphetamine.

Crown Advocate Lauren Taylor, prosecuting, said officers then went to the address on the packet and discovered cocaine, more amphetamine and more ecstasy as well as herbal cannabis and cannabis resin.

On the pair’s phones, messages showed a past of “jointly” supplying drugs, the court heard.

Bonamy had messaged Lima on one occasion in February 2024 that he “spoke to jezza said to him I’ll do him 5 Mandy for £45 each”. He then planned how he would order it online.

Two days later, he told Lima: “If you pop to mine please check for parcel as it says to be delivered today”.

After Lima had received the parcel, he asked if it “just look[ed] like a normal package again?”.

When he was reassured that it did, he wrote: “Ridiculous how easy crime is.”

When the parcel intercepted in July had been sent out, he told Lima that “the weed’s arrived”, but that a special delivery of his “online medicine” was missing.

During police interview, Bonamy claimed that he was prescribed dexamphetamine by his doctor for narcolepsy and ADHD but, due to the hospital regularly being unable to fulfil prescriptions, he had resorted to ordering amphetamine from the dark web.

The value of the drugs seized at the couple’s address was estimated at between £1,135 and £1,460.

Bonamy and Lima both pleaded guilty when they appeared before the Magistrate’s Court on 26 June.

They had no relevant previous convictions and were deemed at low risk of reconviction.

But Crown Advocate Taylor said: “The importation of drugs has a devastating impact on communities.”

She suggested a jail sentence of three years and six months for Bonamy, and 110 hours of community service for Lima.

But Advocate Adam Harrison, defending Bonamy, said the suggested sentence for his client was “far too high”.

He said lower sentences had been imposed for similar crimes in the past, and added of Bonamy: “He accepts that he has acted very foolishly. He very much recognises what he stands to lose.”

Advocate Olaf Blakeley, defending Lima, argued that she should receive a suspended sentence.

He said she now fears she has jeopardised her career as a children’s nurse, and added: “Miss Lima has learnt from this horrible experience. She is profoundly sorry and wishes she could turn back the clock.”

The Bailiff, Sir Timothy Le Cocq, told the pair that the Jurats had been “very much in two minds” about whether to impose jail sentences.

Jurats Kim Averty and David Le Heuzé were sitting.