Read the full judgment text of DCCC 502/2021 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 6 August 2021.
1. The defendant has pleaded guilty to 24 offences of fraud. The offences are highly similar and consist largely of cases where the defendant approaches people in the street telling them a story that his belongings were locked in his workplace or other location, that he was unable to access his belongings and needed money to book a hotel room and that he would repay the money the next day. Sometimes the defendant would ask for additional funds or another version was that the defendant had a part