Owen stiffed for almost a mill, Tyler for half a brick, Mikey 151k.
One year ago, cops swooped on the bookkeeper for the noted Wright family who’d been secretly transferring herself cash to invest in horse-racing bets and poker machines.
“The rest of the money was wasted,” they said.
Shane Maree Hatton, a family friend of the Wrights, although that friendship has since become somewhat strained, was a bookkeeper for the Wright’s plumbing biz.
When the kids started to rake in the sponsor cash, Hatton took on their finances, too.
“There is a trend of family friends and relatives, who are less than qualified, managing large amounts of money and they can’t resist the temptation of taking some of the money for themselves,” the State Crime Command Director, Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett told The Daily Telegraph.
Red flags went up when celeb agent Nick Fordham, who handles Tyler’s sponsorship deals, saw the books, and noticed the balance was a little lower than expected.
Owen blamed his parents for ripping into his fortune.
Hatton, a well-preserved woman of fifty-three years whose neatly pressed blonde crown suggests a love affair with sun and sea, was caught hand in jar, by the fraud squad, and hit with 749 charges of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage.
Court documents showed the extent of the fraud waged over eight years, with Owen being stiffed for almost a million bucks as he struggled to overcome a mysterious brain injury.
From 2012 until 2020, Hatton stole $818,642.80 from Owen, transferring his cash to herself in 334 transactions ranging from $27.65 to $4668.
Tyler was hit for $586,805.07, in 295 transactions ranging from $21 to $4675.
Mikey copped $151,201.23 in 63 transactions ranging from $40 to $3538.55.
Their mum and Dad, Rob and Fiona, lost $81,025.29.
Earlier today, Hatton was jailed for a minimum of three years and ordered to pay back half the money stolen, the court told she’d paid back one hundred k already.
Hatton told the sentencing judge,The addiction had taken over. I didn’t feel like I could stop.”
A happy ending for no one.
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Grannies shouldn’t take selfies
“mysterious brain injury”? he hit his head on the reef at pipe — no mystery
Owen should contact the same guy the Irons Bros hired to “fix” James Lull’s car brakes.
Maybe not a happy ending, but still, going off a 200 foot cliff is certainly a gnarly ending.
Looks like she stole some of Owen’s hair too
I used to have an orange leather jacket just like that
How do you not notice that amount of money missing. Blame yourselves for not monitoring your accounts. It’s not like you were time poor working long hours. And judging from his real estate deals and bank balance now shows at least Owen isn’t without financial skills. Tyler on the other hand
Anyone can make 749 mistakes your honour.
The nice thing about not having any money is you don’t need a bookkeeper.
Um why did owen blame the parents, did they also take money at tue same time as the bookkeeper?
I’m never far away….
you go MIA for days…
“Well preserved woman of fifty-three yrs”
Really ?
I thought it was a leather-neck turtle…
You would though yeah ?
maybe, when she was rich!
Its either sarcasm or a kink for kinked necks. Probs the latter
Low down and dirty move taking advantage of Owen and Tyler while they were incapacitated by illness. Taking money from Mikey on the other hand was well played and can be considered a wannabe bogan mullet wearing tax!
Hold my
beercareer earningsSeems about right for those dreadful Instagram posts alone
Mikey is so lame he makes fun of boogie boarders on his lame videos.
Sorry DR, but I see lots of happy endings coming up if Shane wants to pay back that debt and stay out of jail.
Money ain’t keeping Hatton out of jail. And jail, as we all know, is the closest thing to hell on earth. Unless y’into belting, stabbing and standing over cunts.
I wouldn’t last a day
Maybe she’ll survive in prison by giving “happy endings”.
Really it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person than Tyler .
What the fuck is going on with that woman’s neck ? Gross
I thought she had an orange flannel number on at first glance.
She’s running a pretty strong filter on the mask I’d say…
I was thinking it was a woolen turtle neck jumper.