Repeat offender Kane Dallow behind bars for scamming thousands of dollars from Sisters Beach woman

A man who pretended to work for a television program to sell a woman a $5000 advertising package has been told he is past receiving a suspended sentence.

Kane Scott Dallow has been jailed over a dishonesty charge. Picture: CHRIS KIDD

SERIAL fraudster and conman Kane Scott Dallow will spend four weeks in jail after he was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment with eight weeks suspended in Launceston’s Magistrates court.

Dallow, 38, was taken into custody after being sentenced by Magistrate Sharon Cure.

Dallow pleaded guilty in February to one count of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage from a Sisters Beach woman he met at Agfest last year.

The court heard Dallow scammed the Sisters Beach woman out of $5000 by pretending to work for a Channel 7 television program and selling her an advertising package.

The woman became suspicious of Dallow and contacted police.

Dallow’s lawyer made submissions before sentencing and directed Magistrate Cure to hand down a lengthy, wholly suspended sentence, rather than jail time, because of Dallow’s poor mental health, a possible “underlying mental health condition” and because he was unlikely to reoffend while serving a suspended sentence.

Magistrate Cure read out Dallow’s numerous prior offences in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania over the past 20 years, most of which she said had “dishonesty attached”.

The court previously heard that Dallow, formerly known as Kane Hicks, had served an eight-month prison term in South Australia for another dishonesty offence, having successfully appealed against an original 18-month sentence.

Prosecutors also tendered facts for offences Dallow had previously committed in Victoria, for which he was given a suspended sentence.

Kane Dallow leaves the Launceston Magistrates Court.

In June, prosecutor Felicity Radin told the court there were two outstanding warrants in South Australia for Dallow after he twice failed to appear there last year.

Magistrate Cure on Friday said Dallow was past a suspended sentence.

“I’ve found this a very difficult matter in terms of how to sentence him,” Magistrate Cure said.

“He has a really loose relationship with the truth.

“There is a vulnerability about him … there is also a suggestion that there might be some sort of personality disorder, but I don’t have that information before me.

“I think he has had plenty of opportunity to be woken up to the reality of his actions.

“I accept that he is vulnerable and the pressure of the attention he is receiving has weighed heavily on him.”

Before handing down the sentence, Magistrate Cure told Dallow: “If this had been a first off, that would have been a totally different matter, but we have 20 years of offending by you.”

Dallow will appear in the Supreme Court at a later date to enter a plea on a number of fraud and forgery related charges.