No jail time for drug-dealing Queensland bikini model and ex-husband

A one-time bikini model and her ex-husband have escaped jail time over their short-lived and unprofitable foray into Queensland's drug dealing scene.

Renee Ellen Codrington and her former partner, Jai Clinton King, fronted the Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday charged with drug trafficking and other drug-related offences.

But despite Justice Debra Mullins admitting she had anticipated putting them behind bars, the pair were sentenced to terms of three years and nine months, wholly suspended.

The pair were tracked down through their dealers after a 14-month police operation called Kilo Hyperdrive which targeted drug networks on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane.

The court heard Codrington and King were both unemployed when they trafficked methamphetamines between August and October 2013, as well as supplying it at the SPRUNG hip hop festival in September that year.

Crown Prosecutor Shauna Rankin agreed with Justice Mullins' assessment of the operation as low-level street dealing, citing a total of illicit substances in question as between two and three ounces over the relevant period.

The court also heard Codrington, a one-time bikini model and well-referenced car detailer, had suffered a "significant addiction to drugs" and been treated for depression.

The 33-year-old met her former husband at her dealer's house but had a whirlwind romance, according to her lawyer, and have since separated.

For his part, the court heard King had a "violent disposition", tended towards big-noting himself and would use threats and physical attacks to carry out his drug-related activities.

"The enterprise does not seem to have been very profitable," Justice Mullins observed.

Codrington wept and dabbed her eyes with tissues as the sentence was handed down, while King appeared calm at the opposite end of the dock.

Under their suspended sentences, neither must commit another crime punishable by imprisonment for a period of four years.