Canberra cafe owner Brendan Baker loses appeal bid to overturn conviction for drug trafficking

A Canberra cafe owner who used social media to show off flashy cars and brag about his apparent wealth has failed to overturn his conviction for multiple drug offences.

Brendan Baker, 29, was last year sentenced to 13 years and eight months jail with a seven year non-parole period for a string of major drug charges, including importing drugs from China.

He claimed he was wrongly convicted and launched an appeal in the ACT Court of Appeal in November on seven grounds, including that the trial judge had “erred” on several points of law.

Today that appeal was dismissed by Justice Wendy Abraham, Justice David Mossop and Justice Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson, who said “there was no unexplained failure in this case”.

Baker appeared in court via video…