Karen Salkilld pretended to have died in a car accident and claimed a large insurance payout in the name of her partner, who was not involved in the scam, a court hears.
The court heard the woman received the money not long after lodging the insurance claim.Karen Salkilld faked her own death, using her former partner's identification, to successfully claim a $718,000 insurance payout.
The 43-year-old pleaded guilty to gaining benefit by fraud and knowingly using a false record to defraud. She opened a MyState account in her former partner's name, as she was the beneficiary, but there was no evidence the woman knew of the crime. Salkilld went to Palmyra police station several times to get identification verified so she could free up the funds.Salkilld was arrested after she went to the police station in early March, purporting to be her former partner.Her lawyer, Max Crispe, said the "crazy act" of faking her death came to her from a movie she had once seen, but did not specify which one.
She continued working as a fitness trainer after moving to Perth, and had an F45 franchise, but accrued various large debts.Mr Crispe said his client was "single-minded in the fraud process" but had penalised herself because she was going to be deprived of contact with her children."It's all unravelled," he said.
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