The commander of the NSW Fraud Squad, Detective Superintendent Megan McGowan, has told ZDNet Australia she's happy with the upgrading of the sentence and conviction of Stephen Craig Dendtler.
"The original conviction was a suspended sentence. We were very unhappy with that," she said.
McGowan described the two year good behaviour bond, conviction and AU$4,000 fine as satisfactory.
"We're pleased to see an increase in the sentence as a consequence of the appeal," she said.
The fact the Dendtler had originally escaped any sort of punishment whatsoever caused uproar. Prosecutors, police and security companies alike condemned the decision to let him walk away.
Although there's no jail time involved, the fact that Dendtler has been branded as a criminal by the courts is not lost on the fraud squad boss.
"That's a very satisfactory result... he now has a ciminal record," she said.
just means he will have a hard time getting good job and add to the unemployment lines but as long as the police are seen to do there job with token convictions thats ok then