Jemma Brackman: The Basin woman embroiled in Boronia car fire plot

A young woman caught up in an alleged plot for some easy insurance money has learnt her lesson the hard way.

Sisters from The Basin are facing trouble after a plan to burn a car for insurance backfired.

The siblings, 20 and 21, helped in an alleged plot to destroy a boyfriend’s car, when the plan went awry.

Jemma Brackman pleaded guilty at the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court to criminal damage by fire on June 8, and was fined without conviction.

Documents allege that Jemma’s older sister Darcy and her boyfriend, Dayne Fuss, had devised a plan to get rid of his black Holden Commodore ute.

The car was financed through the Commonwealth Bank, with $8391.13 left to pay-off from a $16,000 loan, and insured by GIO for $10,200.

Court documents reveal Mr Fuss and Darcy left the ute at Miller Park on the Mountain Highway in Boronia, before the man allegedly reported it stolen to police on July 15, 2019.

Later than night Jemma was allegedly asked by Darcy to help “blow up Dayne’s car”.

After repeatedly refusing to help, Jemma eventually agreed when allegedly offered $1000 of the insurance money.

The sisters then drove to the Boronia park, where Mr Fuss and Darcy had left the ute.

According to documents, Darcy is alleged to have poured petrol inside the car, and lit a roll of toilet paper.

Darcy handed the firey bog roll to her sister and asked her to ignite the car as she had tipped petrol on herself.

But on throwing the flaming roll into the driver’s side, there was an instant flashback of fire that burnt the young woman’s face.

According to court documents five witnesses reported hearing a bang and saw the car on fire.

As soon as the sisters returned home Jemma panicked and screamed for help.

When she phoned for an ambulance she was too hysterical to talk, and Darcy told the 000 call-taker her sister had received burns from face cream ignited by a cigarette.

Court documents reveal attending paramedics believed the injuries were petrol burns and linked the job to the park fire – only 200m from the sisters’ house.

Jemma admitted the pair had set the fire before she was intubated and taken to The Alfred hospital.

Mr Fuss and Darcy are scheduled to appear at the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on July 7.