Gillespie pleads guilty
NZPA-AAP Brisbane The alleged mastermind of the Fine Cotton ring-in, John Patrick Gillespie, pleaded guilty to a fraud charge when he appeared in a Brisbane District Court yesterday. Gillespie, aged 45, formerly of Benowa on the Gold Coast, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of conspiring with Hayden Thomas Haitana and Robert Roy North to defraud the public by affecting by deceit the result of a horse race conducted by the Queensland Turf Club.
The charge, which alleged a conspiracy between May 1
and August 19 last year, differed slightly from the two read to Gillespie when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court last week after his arrest in Victoria.
But it was the same as the one on which the horse trainer, Hayden Haitana, and company director, Robert North, were convicted in the District Court last month.
Gillespie said at first he did not wish to enter a plea as he was waiting to hear the result of his application for legal aid. Judge Byth remanded him for sentence to December 17.
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