Zholia Alemi worked as a psychiatrist for 22 years after she forged a medical degree, a court hears.
A woman who faked a medical degree certificate to work as a psychiatrist for more than two decades has been jailed for seven years.
Alemi studied to be a doctor in New Zealand in the early 1990s but did not finish her course, however she managed to work as a consultant clinical psychiatrist. An investigative journalist uncovered the truth, when in 2018 Alemi was convicted at Carlisle Crown Court of attempting to forge the will and powers of attorney of an 84-year-old widow from Keswick who was one of her patients - so she became main beneficiary of her estate.After that Phil Coleman from Cumberland News made phone calls to New Zealand which established the truth, prompting an investigation by Cumbria Police.
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