Behind bars for Christmas

Friday 14 December 2018

A young woman will be spending Christmas in prison after breaching a community service order for a crime she committed more than a year ago.

Haidee Kristina Moore (29) had been given a community service order in September 2017 for benefit fraud offences.

She had failed to tell Social Security of a change in her circumstances and the Magistrate at the time gave her 100 hours of community service to complete, as a direct alternative to three months imprisonment. 

Eight months later, Moore reappeared in court in May this year because she hadn't done any of that community service. She was charged with 'a breach in requirements', and her community service order was increased to 110 hours.

Yesterday, the Magistrate's Court heard that Moore still hasn't done any of it and a change in her circumstances means she is unable to. 

She also owed money on parking fines which she hadn't paid.

Pictured: Judge Graeme McKerrell. 

Judge Graeme McKerrell told her he had no other option, but to send her to prison; "every effort has been made to assist you, you've not taken that opportunity so I have no alternative but to revoke that order."

He reduced the original sentence though and gave Moore a ten week prison sentence in total, starting from yesterday. 

Pictured: Les Nicolles Prison.