Kayla Attie: Alleged Finks bikie girlfriend guilty of Westfield shopping fraud
The shopping spree of an alleged Finks bikie gang member’s girlfriend, cashed up with a wallet filled with $100 notes bound in a rubber band, has ended up before the courts.
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The shopping spree of an alleged Finks bikie gang member’s girlfriend, cashed up with a wallet filled with $100 notes bound in a rubber band, has ended before the courts.
Kayla Attie, 23, enjoyed a couple of hours of retail therapy with two gal pals at Westfield Eastgardens on a Thursday night last August, buying up at popular retail stores FootLocker, EB Games and Supre.
About a month later, police officers from Strike Force Raptor raided her Casula home and charged her with five fraud-related offences from her shopping adventure.
Supported by her alleged bikie boyfriend Sarmad Mekhail at Downing Centre Local Court on Monday, Attie pleaded guilty to a single count of dishonestly obtain property by deception with every other charge dropped by police.
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Police facts tendered to the court reveal Attie, described as thin, blonde and with lip fillers, was captured on CCTV footage entering the shopping centre about 7.25pm with two unknown female friends.
The trio roamed the retail outlet for a number of hours, with one friend buying a PlayStation 4 bundle from EB Games with $100 notes and Attie later purchasing over $700 worth of goods from Foot Locker, also paid by cash.
Four of the $100 notes where counterfeit, court documents state.
Police raided her home a month later and arrested the mother-of-one, seizing the PlayStation 4 from the address.
Attie’s lawyer Michael Moussa asked for the matter to be adjourned for sentence, which will take place on October 21.