Accounts manager admits dishonesty charges
A Christchurch accounts manager has admitted two dishonesty charges and has been remanded on bail for sentencing in December when he may seek a discharge without conviction.
Details of the offending by James William McKellar, 26, of Merivale, have not yet been agreed between the police and the defence, but he has admitted charges of dishonestly using a credit card, and obtaining money by deception.
The offences are alleged to have taken place in Christchurch last year and early this year. They relate to a law firm’s credit card, and the accounts of a plumbing and drainage company.
Defence counsel Penny Brown said there was no agreed summary of facts so it could not be handed to Judge Patrick Treston in the Christchurch District Court nor made available to the media.
She said it had not yet been settled because there were a large number of transactions involved. A charge relating to 264 transactions was mentioned at an earlier appearance.
“Reparation has also not been agreed but work has begun,” she said.
She said she was hopeful that an agreed set of facts would be reached during the remand, but if not she would tell the court if a disputed facts hearing was necessary.
She asked the judge not to enter convictions yet, because McKellar wanted to explore the possibility of a discharge without conviction, and Judge Treston agreed to remand him for sentence without recording the convictions. He asked for a pre-sentence report to cover McKellar’s suitability for home or community detention.
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