Premium Content Subscriber only A CONVICTED fraudster who scammed $160,000 from his employer before selling a man $1200 worth of grog he did not have has narrowly avoided jail. Ipswich District Court heard on Thursday that despite suffering ill health, David Hall had not been deterred from his offending. His grog fraud was committed while on a suspended sentence for ripping off his employer. Judge Bernard Porter QC made it very clear to Hall that a jail could still safely house him despite his many health issues. David Malcolm Hall, 58, from North Booval, pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended jail sentence by reoffending.