Sentence Soon On Faked Death
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday February 14, 2006
A FORMER Sydney millionaire, who faked his death to share a $3.5 million insurance payout with his wife and daughter will be sentenced in Raymond Terrace Local Court on Thursday next week. Harry Bentley Gordon, 57, who faced court yesterday, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with the two women to defraud AMP Insurance of $3.5 million, falsely staging his death in the Karuah River on June 3, 2000, and two counts of having false Australian passports. His daughter Josaphine, 30, who also appeared in court and is on bail, has not entered pleas to charges of conspiring with her parents to defraud AMP and making false statements to Glebe Coroners Court. The magistrate, Sharron Crews, postponed Gordon's sentencing from yesterday after a dispute over evidence. In 2001 the State Coroner, John Abernethy, found that Gordon had drunk alcohol, driven his boat into a buoy, been thrown into the river and drowned. Gordon's wife's Sheila, 56, is being dealt with in Sydney's Downing Centre Court. The Newcastle Herald
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