Fake RAH nurse Brandon Chesney pleads guilty to charges he posed as a hospital worker
This man had one of Adelaide’s biggest hospitals fooled for weeks. Now the fake nurse has come clean on his crimes.
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A young man who fooled a major Adelaide hospital and posed as a nurse, gained access to a duress alarm and obtained false ID documents has admitted to his crimes.
Brandon Chesney, 23, stood silently in the dock of the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday morning as his lawyer told the court his myriad of charges could be finalised by way of a guilty plea.
At a previous hearing, Mr Chesney, from Newton, pleaded guilty to serious criminal trespass, dishonestly taking property, possessing prohibited material (identity theft), possessing an unregistered firearm, and being unlawfully on premises.
On Friday morning, Chesney pleaded guilty to a further two counts – contravening conditions of his L plates and driving without L plates – relating to his actions in the car park of the hospital in June.
Documents previously released by the court reveal Mr Chesney had been onsite at the RAH “without lawful excuse” 13 times between April 12 and June 12.
He entered the hospital on June 13 “as a trespasser with the intention of committing an offence … namely theft”.
The documents reveal that on the same day he was accused of dishonestly and without consent “taking property, namely a nurse duress alarm of a value involving $2500 or less” that belonged to the RAH.
He further “possessed prohibited material, namely an RAH identification card, intending to use that material for a criminal purpose”.
At the time of his arrest, police alleged Mr Chesney had accessed restricted areas of the hospital and that he may have had access to confidential medical records.
After his arrest, SA Health launched an internal investigation.
Chesney was remanded on continuing bail to return to court in December for submissions ahead of sentencing.
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