Serial identity offender Samantha Azzopardi is in the news again, with The Age reporting that she has been banned from stalking or attempting to locate a 'protected person', in addition to multiple identity charges (including obtaining financial advantage by deception).
She is alleged to have dishonestly obtained $18,837 by portraying herself as being from Europe and in need of support services for family violence and child sexual abuse. Through that portrayal she is reported as having deceptively obtained accommodation, vouchers and medical costs from specialist family violence support services.
Last week it was revealed that she had been arrested in Northcote following allegations of deceptive conduct in Dandenong, Brighton and Reservoir. Unsurprisingly, bail was refused.
As noted elsewhere in this blog she has previously pretended to be more than 70 different people, including a child orphan and a Russian gymnast. A year ago she was sentenced in Downing Local Court (Sydney) to been sentenced to 17-months behind bars - that time regarding claims she was a 14-year-old child abuse victim from France - but was out after three months.
