Posted on 09/27/2023 6:10:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Australian man has been ordered to pay compensation to the police after he faked his own kidnapping.
Paul Iera, from Wollongong in New South Wales (NSW), came up with the plot in order to spend New Year's Eve with another woman instead of his partner.
A court ordered the 35-year-old to pay A$16,218 (£8,506; $10,334) to NSW police for their investigation work.
The Wollongong magistrate said Iera was "motivated by the least compelling reason he has ever come across".
On 31 December 2022, Iera sent a text message to his partner claiming to be from his kidnappers. The text said the imagined kidnappers would keep him "until the morning".
His partner then contacted police in the Lake Illawarra district, who found Iera in his van in his hometown of Dapto the following morning.
Officers put in more than 200 hours of police work investigating Iera's claim of kidnapping, with $16,218 spent on wages and obtaining phone records, local media reported.
Local newspaper the Illawarra Star said Iera had initially claimed he was taken by a group of unknown Middle Eastern men and later let go.
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SOME MEN can ONLY think with their LITTLE head.
Who cares?
They should do this to every person who files fake poloce reports, and if their fakery involves lying about another person to frame them, severe jail time.
True. So do some women, like Sherri Papini.
Australian Man Who Faked Own Kidnapping Meet
Sherri Papini, who faked her own kidnapping
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4185424/posts
Yep.
Dude should say it was an MFA Performance Art project and demand a government grant.
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