Lachlan Morganti pleads guilty in Ballarat court after using GoFundMe money raised for McGuire’s family to fund his gambling habit
A man who organised a crowdfund to support an alleged murder victim’s family squandered the money to fuel his gambling addiction.
The fundraising campaign raised $64,541.75, but Hannah’s mother Debbie McGuire never saw a cent in her account. “Instead of the focus being on Hannah’s devastating circumstances of her death, it was diverted elsewhere.” “One of the community members described the accused as ‘vile’ at the time; I thought it was harsh,” she said.The court was told Morganti struggled with mental health issues and a gambling addiction since the age of 18, and at the time the funds hit his account in April, he had already blown $10,000 of his superannuation on gambling.
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