The former general manager of the Adelaide Remand Centre will spend at least another year behind bars for stealing money from the inmates he was managing, in offending that a District Court judge described as 'striking at the heart' of the custodial system.
She said that, over that same time period, the father-of-two put more than $1 million through poker machines at the Adelaide Casino.
Judge Deuter said that Williams did not want to declare bankruptcy because he feared losing his job with Serco and stole money to "try [to] juggle the debts". "This led to you believing that the only way to recover your financial situation was to continue to win money by gambling," Judge Deuter said.The court was told that Williams gambled away $47,000 per year between 2016 and 2021, but his addiction spiralled to more than $1 million in 2022."You chose not to declare bankruptcy but, instead, stole funds to gamble to try [to] avoid that eventuality," she said.
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