An Adelaide couple who worked for SA Health allegedly developed a “clever, sophisticated and well-executed” scam involving fake racist threats to receive benefits including taxpayer-funded accommodation and interstate trips, a court has heard. Tabitha Lean, 40, and Simon Craig Peisley, 37, have pleaded not guilty to 47 counts of deception and one count of attempted deception. The District Court heard the husband and wife were both employed in the Aboriginal Health Service division of SA Health and Lean was the director of that service. In opening the prosecution case to the jury, prosecutor Chris Edge said both of the accused orchestrated and authored threats relating to their jobs over a two-year period from 2012 to 2014 and also claimed they had received threatening phone calls.
