Extradited man Kane Dallow pleads guilty saying ‘I have done this type of stuff since I was a child’
A notorious Tasmanian conman who styled himself as a journalist produced fake bank statements and illegally spied on a woman using tracking devices before his interstate escape has pleaded guilty.
A notorious con-man extradited from Queensland made an emotional statement to the Launceston Magistrates court after pleading guilty to a raft of fraudulent-type crimes from as far back as 2023.
Kane Scott Dallow, 44, formerly of Legana near Launceston fled Tasmania on the eve of his Supreme Court trial in April 2024 on a number of fraud related charges.
During his career Dallow styled himself as a journalist and private investigator.
In 2021 he made defamatory videos about Tasmanian parliamentarian Michael Ferguson.
He was jailed for nine months for four counts of contempt of the Federal court after he defied a court order to stop making the videos.
Dallow was in custody for his first appearance in court after arriving from Queensland on Thursday.
He appeared contrite and told deputy chief magistrate Ken Stanton that he intended to plead guilty to the Supreme Court matters.
Dallow appeared contrite as he pleaded guilty to all charges including a count of perverting the course of justice.
Police prosecutor Kate Springer said that on May 23, 2023 Dallow’s driver’s licence was suspended for failing to pay of $2498 in fines.
He was intercepted driving at Legana on September 21 but told police he had entered into a payment plan with the Monetary Penalties Enforcement Service.
He produced a handwritten document with a reference number and police accepted that it was an administrative error that police systems were still listing him as being a suspended driver.
On October 19, 2023 he was again intercepted driving but told police he had made a payment of $780 to MPES and that he was not suspended from driving.
He later went to the Exeter police station and produced a screenshot of a Suncorp bank statement from his account which purported to be a record of payment.
“Police checked with MPES which confirmed that no payment had been made and the bank statement was fraudulent,” Ms Springer said.
“It was a fake document.”
He pleaded to a count of forgery and a count of uttering
In May 2023 Dallow represented himself as the holder of a private investigator’s licence from the ACT.
He was hired by a man who wanted Dallow to spy on his partner to collect evidence for Family Court proceedings.
Dallow attended the Elphin Sports Centre and fitted a tracking device to the woman’s red Holden Cruze and also hired a Hobart investigator to keep her under surveillance.
On October 24, 2023 he agreed to meet the complainant at the Newstead Hotel car park and removed the tracking device.
CCTV from the hotel showed Dallow removing the device.
He pleaded guilty to a count of acting as a commercial subagent without a licence between May and October and two counts of unlawfully tampering with a vehicle.
Dallow also pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching Supreme Court bail, granted on March 4, 2023, which specified he live at Beach Road, Legana and sign the bail register at the police station.
“On Tuesday April 16 the accused and his husband Peter Dallow and his four year-old daughter caught the Spirit of Tasmania to Geelong on a one-way ticket under the name ‘Mr Baby Jamieson’,” Ms Springer said.
Dallow failed to sign in on April 22 and on April 26 when he was due to appear in the Supreme Court for trial and an arrest warrant was issued.
Dallow was asked if he wanted to say anything before he was sentenced.
With a quavering voice Dallow admitted he was wholly responsible and that was why he had left Tasmania.
“I am wearing all of this, not my husband or daughter, its all me,” he said.
He said he had been in custody for two weeks in Queensland at the direction of Tasmania Police.
He told the court he had been working piloting heavy vehicles between Brisbane and Long Reach since fleeing Tasmania.
Dallow told Mr Stanton he would be pleading guilty to the Supreme Court matters.
“I have done this sort of, this type of stuff since I was a child,” he said.
“I do not blame my parents although my childhood was not great, maybe things could have been different if there was some intervention.
“I’m not going to lie I have been doing this for many, many years.
“It was like a compulsive behaviour but I never sought any help.
“I have a beautiful four year-old daughter and a loving husband who have supported me through all of this.
“I want to get the matters done with because I do not want to miss any more of my daughter’s life.”
Dallow made no application for bail and clarified that the time in custody would be ultimately taken into account.
He said he was due to appear in the Supreme Court on Monday, December 1 on matters ‘of a similar nature’.
Mr Stanton ordered a pre-sentence report and wanted to take some time to consider sentence and adjourned until January 14, 2026 for sentence.
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