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 KAY FRANCIS WHITE
Played By: Sandy Gore
First Ep: 127
Last Ep: 146
Total Featured: 18 Episodes
Crime: Theft and Embezzelment
Sentence: 5 years
Work Area: Laundry
Cellmate: Judy Bryant
Close To: Tracy Morris, Judy Bryant
Current Status: Dead. Hit over the head with a kettle by Linda Jones.
Kay is first seen working as the payroll and finances clerk in Andrew Reyonold's factory. Working for the company for the last 12 years, Kay's initially seen as a reasonably friendly woman willing to give the women a fair go at work and not holding the fact that they are prisoners against them.
Soon after her hearing Margo talking about her book to the other women, we begin to see the truer side to her. She wants in on the book and begins placing a few bets with Margo. Eventually running up a bit of a debt, Kay decides she knows where she's at compared to Margo and doens't need to pay up if she really doesn't want to, turning Margo's nose in anger.
She does a deal with Judy to provide her with a dress when Judy plans to escape and also sets Nolene Burke up to cover her stealing fabric remnants by getting Nolene to steal some and lagging on her. Soon after we find out Kay's gambling debts are worse than we'd thought and that she's been stealing money from the company to finance her gambling problem. Caught out stealing the pay packets Kay is arrested and sent to Wentworth on remand. In Wentworth the women shun her for destroying their work-release program, but Judy stops Bea from bashing her on numerous occasions. Kay initially convinces Dr. Weissman she is sick and needs help so she'll get a lighter sentence - but the women frame Kay and she's caught out gambling and Dr. Weissman drops from being her character witness. She's sentenced to 5 years.
On returning to Wentworth, Kay tries influencing Tracy by telling her the women are out to get her and she's the one to be trusted. We also find out Kay is lagging to Vera about the goings on in the prison. Bea eventually gets the opportunity to bash Kay, landing herself in solitary, whilst Kay uses this opportunity to try and take over as top-dog. When Margo is also sent to solitary, Kay decides to set up a book and take over the gambling in the prison too. When she leaves the laundry briefly, the women come up with a plan to break Kay by placing large bets to 'break the bank'. Initially this succeeds and Kay goes broke, but to get the bank back into action she bullies some of the women to place poor bets and lose so she gets money back to cover the book.
Judy concocts one last final bid to break Kay by convincing her to play one last bet with her a 12 to 1 outsider. Little does Kay realise but the greyhound race was raced the day before and Lizzie has doctored the papers and the women have used Tracey's radio to set Kay up.
Kay agrees and Judy bets all the women's money; $80. Of course knowing the results the women win... $960. Way beyond bust, Kay flips her lid and seeks out Lizzie, cottoning onto the fact that Lizie was the only one who could changed the papers... and starts to strangle her. Hearing Lizzie's cries for help, Linda Jones walks into the room and tries to pull her off. Realising she's too strong, Linda grabs a kettle/jug from the bench and smashes it over Kay's head, knocking her out cold.
Kay is sent off to Wentworth General in a coma but eventually dies of a clot on the brain a few days later.
© 2007 Peter Strauss for On The Inside. Not to be reproduced without permission.
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