Pregnant model Kirsty Dayment is due to be sentenced on drug charges and risks being sent to prison where she may give birth while in custody

The 35-year-old former bikini model who had pleaded guilty to cocaine and ecstasy supply sought a third adjournment on Friday to her sentencing on which a hefty prison sentence could be imposed.

The NSW District Court was told that the 34-year-old had suffered a miscarriage since her last appearance in court in March when she was three months pregnant.

On that occasion, Judge Sarah Huggett told Dayment to prepare to give birth in prison.

Wearing tight black trousers, a black lace top and high heeled black stilettos, Dayment looked uncomfortable as she sat in the dock of the courtroom.

Her co-accused, Dayment’s former lover Nicholas Riganias, appeared in court via video link from Long Bay prison where he has been in custody since the former couple’s 2015 arrest.

Dressed in prison greens, Riganias slowly shook his head as Dayment’s lawyer sought a further adjournment for sentencing.

Kirsty Dayment strode the red carpet and worked as a promotions models before police arrested her for trafficking in drugs. Picture: InstagramSource:Instagram

Kirsty Dayment was a bikini model.Source:Supplied

The former model had a recent miscarriage.Source:Supplied

Police swooped on the oceanfront Park Apartments where Dayment lived with her drug dealer boyfriend and found commercial quantities of drugs.Source:Supplied

Judge Huggett apologised to Riganias for the delay, saying “I’m sorry, but it is what it is.”

The court heard that Dayment had supplied cocaine to a customer and in text messages between her and Riganias when they shared a waterfront apartment in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs the ecstasy had been referred to as “M”.

Judge Huggett said Dayment’s “fingerprints were all over the packaging which contained the MDMA and the elastic bands”.

She said that Dayment had already pleaded guilty to the drug charges last year.

The one-time socialite who once strode the red carpet with A-listers and posed provocatively in fashion magazines has been forced to give up her glamorous beachside lifestyle.

She entered guilty pleas last August to supplying 85g of cocaine and being involved in the supply of a commercial quantity, or 1.36kg of MDMA.

Dayment’s lawyers said the guilty plea on the MDMA charge might be a miscarriage of justice.

“The MDMA was found in the premises and the offender is not the person who has authority over the premises,” Dayment’s barrister told the court.

Crown prosecutors sought immediate detention in custody of Ms Dayment who has been on bail since a brief period in prison after her and Riganias’s June 2015 arrest.

They said telephone intercept evidence supported Dayment’s culpability in the drug dealing.

Dayment had also personally sold 1.02g of cocaine to a customer, according to agreed facts of the case.

Prosecutors are expected to again apply for Dayment’s imprisonment next Tuesday at a court hearing unless the ex-model’s lawyers succeed in changing her plea on the MDMA charge.

Judge Huggett said that next Tuesday “there will be no opposition to her detention unless there is something arising in relation to the integrity of her plea”.

She ordered Dayment stay at her current address except for a meeting with her lawyers prior to next Tuesday’s hearing.

She said she had taken the “degree of anxiety and trauma” associated with the miscarriage of Dayment’s pregnancy into account in her sentence.

She set down April 20 for sentencing and assured Riganias that he would have his matter concluded “in a couple of weeks”.

Dayment had been due for sentencing last December 13 by Judge Sarah Huggett, but pleaded that she had post traumatic stress disorder and needed a psychiatric report.

At a hearing in March when she was due again to be sentenced, Dayment’s barrister told Judge Huggett that his client was already three months’ pregnant.

Disgraced model Kirsty Dayment arrives at Downing Centre Court for a sentencing hearing on drug charges of dealing cocaine and ecstasy. Picture: Stephen Cooper.Source:News Corp Australia