The schemeLouise Witteveen faked death certificates and other documents to get her then-boyfriend and another prisoner free passes out of jail. The detailsThe following day, Witteveen used her work email address to send a forged tangi notice and a forged death certificate she had created to another email address. She then used that address to send the documents on to Martin’s lawyer, to give the appearance they had been sent by another person. The sentenceWitteveen, 30, of Bucklands Beach was sentenced to six months of community detention and 12 months of intensive supervision when she appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Friday after earlier pleading guilty to three counts of using forged documents. Martin, who the judge said was obviously the instigator and leader of the plan, was sentenced in December to four months of home detention.

Source: Stuff March 17, 2023 11:48 UTC