A pokies binge left two people and unborn twins dead in a car crash. The case is one of many where gambling addiction overlaps with criminal offending
The political fallout focused on organised crime. However, the courts have long witnessed an overlap between gambling addiction and criminal offending.
“In my experience, the financial motive is generally underpinned or predicated by gambling or drug addiction, or both,” he said.Richard Moananu killed an expectant mother and teenager after smashing into their car at Orchard Hills in Sydney’s west in September 2018. He killed passenger Katherine Gordon, 23. She was one week from giving birth to twins, who did not survive the crash.Moananu also killed the 17-year-old learner driver while the front-seat passenger, Gordon’s husband Bronko Hoang, was badly injured.
Smith borrowed $30 from his drinking buddy, Thomas Moloney, and minutes later hit a $7000 jackpot, court documents say.Smith told the court he understood that meant he would have to fight Moloney for the money but hoped his associate was calming down. Papanicolaou parked in the nearby Peace Park before jumping the fence into the backyard of Marjorie Welsh – she was after money, the NSW Supreme Court later found.Papanicolaou attacked her 92-year-old client in a senseless fury, bludgeoning the woman with her own walking sticks before stabbing her.
Police intercepted almost half a kilo of MDMA in parcels from France in late 2020 and tracked them to the suburban brick home of Kedwell’s mother.“[Kedwell] committed the offences with the intention of making money to relieve financial problems he was experiencing at that time arising from his gambling,” Judge Ian Bourke said in May 2022.
It ended after he caused $1.3m damage trying to burn down another church in Lismore after the voices in his head ordered him to do so.
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