The former
dean of Dunedin's Anglican cathedral has admitted seven fraud
charges involving $665,000 missing from the Auckland
University of Technology (AUT).
Jonathan Kirkpatrick pleaded guilty when he appeared in the
Auckland District Court today and was remanded for sentence
on October 6.
He was arrested earlier this month and charged with offending
between January 2003 and May this year.
At an earlier appearance his lawyer Russell Fairbrother told
the court Kirkpatrick would take "full responsibility for his
actions".
Police alleged Kirkpatrick used false invoices in the name of
companies Eventure and Halsey Consulting to obtain funds from
AUT and falsified records and tampered with AUT's accounting
system.
Kirkpatrick is the former partner of former Labour MP Tim
Barnett.
He has a first class honours degree in theology from the
University of London, an MBA from the University of Otago and
was ordained as a priest in London in 1985.
In 1996 he was made the 10th Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in
Dunedin, working with the country's first female bishop,
Penny Jamieson.
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