Funds From Credit Offences Used For Bills

Newcastle Herald

Tuesday November 9, 2004

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A MAN obtained $3800 in advance from an Adamstown resident to build a car port but spent the money instead on his bills, Newcastle Court was told yesterday.

The court heard that the May offence was one of 17 frauds committed in the Lower Hunter by Mitchell Raymond Cox, a shooting contractor, between September last year and October 1 this year.

Cox, 21, of Ocean Street, Dudley, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of obtaining credit totalling $13,812.45 from mainly businesses by fraud and one of obtaining a $374 satellite receiver by passing a valueless cheque.

The goods that Cox obtained in the credit offences included binoculars, a camera, a barbecue, five tyres, a nail gun, a computer package, a spotlight package, and two battery packs and a hand-held spotlight.

When questioned about the matters, he had said he had no intention of paying the accounts, he had no means to pay and that he did not have any work.

Senior Constable Dale Woods said in a statement that Cox was convicted earlier this year of 19 counts of obtaining benefits by deception.

Magistrate Richard Wakely remanded Cox in custody until November 29 for sentence.

© 2004 Newcastle Herald

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