Jessica Lynette Tarbuck faces Hervey Bay court on fraud charge

When a Fraser Coast resident placed a delivery order with Dominos, they weren’t to know a woman with fraud form was living next door.

A neighbour was cheesed off after discovering the woman next door had claimed a Dominos delivery that wasn’t hers.

Jessica Lynette Tarbuck pleaded guilty in Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Thursday to one count of fraud.

The court heard the incident happened on May 4, when one of Tarbuck’s neighbour’s failed to receive their pizza delivery.

The neighbour contacted Dominos and was informed their order, worth $40, had been delivered.

As the delivery person arrived, Tarbuck had gone to meet them and collected the pizzas herself, the court was told.

Police were called and Tarbuck made admissions that she had taken the pizza and she’d known it wasn’t hers but did it anyway.

Jessica Lynette Tarbuck landed herself in hot water when she claimed a pizza delivery she did not pay for.

The court heard Tarbuck was receiving Centrelink payments and as a result of her offending, it was going to be “an expensive pizza”, lawyer Daniel Hunter said.

Magistrate Trinity McGarvie said it was dishonest offending, telling Tarbuck she didn’t know what impact her actions would have as she did not know about other people’s financial circumstances.

Tarbuck was fined $300.

She was also ordered to pay restitution of $40 to Dominos.

It’s the second time in less than a year Tarbuck has been sentenced on dishonesty offences.

In August last year she was sentenced for fraud after she used a bank card she found in the car park of a shopping centre.

Tarbuck had used the card to make eight transactions, spending a total of $452.

For that offence was placed on 12-month’s probation and ordered to complete 40 hours of community service.

No convictions were recorded.