During Hassanali’s trial, jurors learned that he suffered from a gambling addiction and spent most of the money he collected on feeding that addiction. However, Judge Timothy Sharp believed that Hassanali did not show remorse despite receiving numerous character references.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The judge decided that Hassanali had “demonstrated a calculated pattern of deceit, which only stopped when the police intervened.” As such, and with the jury’s verdict, he sentenced him to at least four years and nine months behind bars. After that, Hassanali can request parole.<\/p>\n
In another recent gambling ploy, a UK man will serve 10 months in prison for scamming Apple out of three iPhones in Ireland.<\/p>\n
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Pat Sheedy, 53, convinced Apple he needed the phones for a Virgin Media TV demonstration. Since he is a published author with local awards on his resume, Apple agreed. The company shipped him an iPhone 11 and two iPhone SE, valued at around \u20ac2,900 (US$3,040), on the condition he returned them when he finished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sheedy used false documents to fool Apple into believing he worked for Virgin. But the ruse ultimately failed. After he didn’t return the phones, police tracked him down and sent him before a judge.<\/p>\n
His attorney asserted that Sheedy, with a rap sheet including 94 convictions, had a “severe gambling addiction,” although he added that he was receiving medical attention for it. The judge determined that Sheedy is a “danger to society” when he isn’t in jail. However, the nature of the crime limited the sentence he could impose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man in Perth is heading to jail for the next chapter in his life. The 42-year-old scammed a religious acquaintance out of AU$2.7 million (US$1.9 million) over two years, most of which he spent gambling. Munir Muzafar Fakrud Hassanali repeatedly stole from his 66-year-old victim. According to the Australian media outlet ABC News, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":217049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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