A 20-year-old former betting agency worker who staged a robbery with his best friend to recover thousands of dollars he lost gambling at the TAB his grandmother owned has avoided jail time.
Alexander James Abey and co-accused Harry Michael Corner, 19, pleaded guilty to fabricating a story about being tied up and robbed at the TAB in the Hobart suburb of Derwent Park in April this year.
The court heard Abey, an aspiring dog groomer from Berriedale in Hobart’s north, began…