Ex-WACA employee jailed
A former accountant has been jailed for 20 months for stealing from the Western Australia Cricket Association
Cricinfo staff
30-Aug-2005
Martin Whitely, a former accountant with the Western Australia Cricket Association (WACA), pleaded guilty to 53 counts of stealing and was sentenced to a 20-month jail term.
The district court in Perth heard that Whitely, 32, stole almost $160,000 (£65,000) from the WACA over a three-year period and gambled it through TAB Ltd, Australia's second biggest gaming group. In a similar case last month, Susan Woodward, 54, admitted stealing more than £82,000 from Northamptonshire.
Judge Robert Mazza made Whitely eligible for parole and instructed him to repay the money to the WACA.