Regan Yerbury, Karen Yerbury and Gavin Dunn face fraud trial
An ex-NRL cheerleader, a NSW Police senior sergeant and a male associate accused of a $30,000 car insurance fraud scheme will face a hearing in a Sydney court.
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A former NRL cheerleader, a NSW Police senior sergeant and a male associate will fight claims they fraudulently claimed a $30,000 car insurance payout at a court hearing.
Ex-Bulldogs cheerleader Regan Yerbury, her mother and police officer Karen Yerbury and their alleged associate Gavin Dunn were charged in December 2018 after police allege they fraudulently claimed $30,571.17 from car insurance agency Eric Insurance Ltd in 2018.
The trio was charged after dramatic raids at two homes in Engadine and Kirrawee in November that year.
Regan Yerbury, 23, was originally charged with one count of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage, but has since been hit with two more identical charges and an additional charge of concealing a serious offence.
Karen Yerbury was also charged with one count of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage, one count of attempting to dishonestly obtain financial advantage, and two counts of concealing a serious offence.
Police withdrew one count of misconduct in a public office related to the alleged fraud.
Karen Yerbury has been suspended from her position as a senior sergeant in the NSW Police Force since she was charged in 2018.
Police will say Dunn hatched the alleged scheme after they charged him with knowingly directing a criminal group, two counts of stealing a car, and two counts of attempting to obtain financial advantage.
All three will face a five-day hearing at Downing Centre Local Court from March 2.
Regan Yerbury was excused from her bail reporting conditions in 2019 to take a six-week round-the-world trip after her solicitor argued she had already paid for the overseas jaunt before she was charged.
“(She is taking) a pre-booked trip to America, Mexico, Portugal, Morocco, Dubai and Indonesia,” her solicitor George Constantine wrote to the court in 2018.
Her father guaranteed a $10,000 surety to the court to ensure his daughter’s return to Australia after the trip.
Yerbury posted a picture of herself in Jamaica on January 18 last year captioned “goodbye to the Caribbean and my bikinis, not sure Morocco would approve”.
On another image shot in Tulum, Mexico, Yerbury wrote “no amount of kids’ pee could ruin these waters for me”.
The Engadine woman also posted images of herself riding camels in the Sahara Desert, posing against brightly coloured buildings in Cuba, and spending New Year’s Eve on the beach in Cancun.
Less than a week after she was charged in November last year, Yerbury posted a selfie to Instagram describing the previous week as “super shitty”.
