Woman who posed as doctor for over twenty YEARS jailed as judge blasts 'abject failure of scrutiny'
A fake psychiatrist has been jailed after forging a fake degree certificate and submitting it to the General Medical Council who have since admitted that ‘rigorous checks’ were not carried out.
Prosecutors described her as ‘the most accomplished fraudster’. After being found guilty of 20 offences including forgery, using a false instrument and fraud, she was jailed for seven years. “She was so registered. Thereafter the defendant practised continuously in a very large number of posts both in the NHS and private healthcare providers from literally one end of the country to another,” he said.
The letter of verification was found to have a number of spelling errors, including the author being the ‘Faculty Regitrar’, who wrote to ‘varify’ she had completed six years of training with ‘satisfactory grade’. The 84-year-old woman was ‘targeted’ by Alemi and of her £1.3million in her will, just £10,000 remained. Alemi had sent the remaining funds to her family in the United States.
Sentencing her, Judge Hilary Manley said: “The quality of the spelling, grammar and printing in that document [the letter] should have alerted even the most casual reader that something was very much amiss, but, for whatever reason, it appears even the most basic checks, such as a telephone call or letter to the School of Medicine, which would have confirmed immediately that the Registrar named in the letter was no longer in post, and that in any event you had not completed your degree, were...
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