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Robyn Wuth

Mum weeps as fine doubled for stealing pilot's identity

Stephanie Bennett confessed to using the dead pilot's identity to try to avoid a traffic ticket. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A mother of two who stole the identity of the pilot killed in the Sea World helicopter tragedy in a bid to dodge a traffic ticket has had her fine doubled in court.

Stephanie Louise Bennett wept openly as she pleaded guilty to fraud by dishonestly inducing a person to act and one count of obtaining or dealing with another's identity to commit an indictable offence in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Friday.

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