Felicity Kate Tait: Greenslopes obesity clinic worker busted in $13k drug fraud

A fraudster working at a Brisbane obesity clinic has landed in court after she was busted using her employers to pay for more than $13,000 in personal drug prescriptions.

A female fraudster working at a Brisbane obesity clinic has landed in court after she was busted using her employers to pay for more than $13,000 in personal drug prescriptions.

Felicity Kate Tait, 43, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Wednesday to 10 charges including stealing by clerks and servants, using restricted computer without consent and two counts each of uttering forged document and forgery and uttering.

Felicity Kate Tait, 43, leaving Beenleigh courthouse.

The court heard while working at a Greenslopes obesity clinic, Tait used prescriptions to obtain drugs for herself and billed it to her employer.

There were more than 270 transactions adding up to in excess of $13,000 in total between November 1, 2020 to April 12, 2021.

The court heard Tait had since been dismissed from her employment from the Greenslopes obesity clinic as a result of her offending.

Tait’s lawyer said his client had no criminal history and described the offending as out of character for her.

“My client had been prescribed Stilnox on a long-term basis as she suffers from chronic insomnia,” he said.

“The general practitioner terminated the prescription of the Stilnox … and my client felt that she needed to keep on using Stilnox which caused her to do what she did, which is obviously a significant breach of trust.”

He said Tait was now looking to join the Australian Army as a warehouse operations specialist.

She was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid community service. No convictions recorded.