Violent, disgraced accountant struck off
A Geraldine accountant has been struck off the Institute of Chartered Accountants register after earlier being sentenced to 11 months' home detention for assault, burglary and theft.
A disgraced Geraldine accountant has been struck off the Institute of Chartered Accountants register after earlier being sentenced to 11 months' home detention for assault, burglary and theft.
Shilo Marie King had stolen more than $35,000 from two voluntary organisations and took part in an aggravated robbery which left an elderly man's leg and nose broken in a prolonged attack
In October last year, she was sentenced to eight months' home detention, with three months added for the thefts.
The Timaru District Court was told during the trial that a long-running dispute between her father and the victim led to King acting as a lookout while her brother, Andrew Peter Roberts, with a stocking over his head and armed with a baseball bat, attacked the elderly man.
In addition, she was found guilty of stealing $16,131.46 through 48 transactions when she was the accountant at Pathways Centre Trust.
Over five months, King stole money from the Geraldine-based trust, which provides residential care for intellectually disabled young people in Canterbury.
She was also found guilty of stealing $19,430.23 from the Geraldine Rugby Football Club, where she was secretary, and in January was adjudicated bankrupt.
Although King repaid both organisations in full, the accountants' disciplinary tribunal found that her conviction “reflects on her fitness to practise accountancy”.
She was also found guilty of bringing the profession into disrepute, failing to declare she had been adjudicated bankrupt and failing to respond promptly to communications from the institute.
King did not attend today's hearing, nor did she enter a plea to the charges during a March 28 hearing.
In addition to being struck off, she was ordered to pay the institute $5347 costs and expenses.
Melody Brandon
Tue, 08 May 2012
Tue, 08 May 2012
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