Roller Poster liquidator cops three year stretch

Amanda Young, who as liquidator of flexo printer Roller Poster, and of Admark, stole $44,000 from their accounts, has been jailed for three years for theft, for those and other similar crimes.

She was sentenced to the three years for taking $190,000 from the liquidations of two other entities; Mamark, and St Gregory’s Armenian School, with the judge taking into account her admission of the charges relating to Roller Poster and Admark.

Located on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the Roller Poster business was halfway through printing a 100,000 run for the Labor Party for the 2016 election, when the landlord locked the gates.

The business was bought out of liquidation by Foxcil owner Roger Kirwan, one of the few people around who had working knowledge of the Roller Poster eight-colour Simon VK CI flexo press. He saved most of the jobs, and successfully integrated the business into the Kirwan Group under the Foxcil brand.

In the sentencing comments Judge Shead said Young’s conduct was, “deliberate, continuing and egregious, and entailed a significant degree of deception and guile, involving legal professionals in the hope it would divert the investigative gaze from the offender.”

Young was a partner at Jirsch Sutherland when she stole the money and transferred it to her own accounts, first from Roller Poster and Admark, then the next year from Mamark and St Gregory’s. Jirsch Sutherland has since paid back $193,000 and is seeking the remaining $44,000 from Young.