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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA nurse who lied about her qualifications has been ordered to repay just £278 of the £51,000 she stole from the NHS.\n\nTanya Nasir faked documents and fabricated evidence of her experience to land a neonatal ward manager job at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, South Wales.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe mother-of-two from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire lied about serving in Afghanistan, embellishing her CV with a string of fake medical qualifications to get the role before being suspended in 2010.\n\nNasir even claimed she was shot while serving as a Major in the British Army in Afghanistan, but this was found to be a lie.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHowever, Nasir's military career ended before it even began after she failed a basic fitness test.\n\nShe also faked a job reference using a former colleague's NHS email, lying about previously working with charities such as Oxfam and the Red Cross, Cardiff Crown Court heard on May 7.\n\nDuring her employment, she earned £51,397.58 by pretending to be a band seven nurse when she was only qualified to be a band five.\n\nBand five usually refers to newly qualified nurses, while those in band seven are senior specialists who are often expected to have a Master's degree.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nDespite earning more than £50,000 in her role as ward manager, Nasir had just £278 in her bank account at the time of her costs hearing, having been freed in January.\n\nNow, the court has ordered her to pay £13.91 to Hillingdon NHS Trust and £264.22 to Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board by August 6.\n\nIf she does not pay the £278, she will serve a month in prison.\n\nShe had initially denied fraud but was found guilty of all nine charges and was jailed for five years in July 2024.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Shock as London schoolgirls forced to hide safety alarms inside teddy bears\n  * London schoolgirl, 15, handed record-breaking ban from EVERY shop in England and Wales\n  * California OnlyFans model 'suffocated client who asked her to wrap him up like a mummy'\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFollowing her conviction Nasir was handed a striking off order at a nursing fitness to practise committee hearing on May 23 last year.\n\nHowever, she didn't turn up to her hearing.\n\nJudge Richard Kember told the court: \"There was a risk for a catastrophic outcome for patients and staff.\n\n\"In my view, this went far beyond an acceptable level of talking yourself up for an application or embellishing proper experience.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking after her initial sentencing in 2024, Gayle Ramsay, Specialist Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said**:** \"Tanya Nasir deliberately lied about her qualifications and work experience so that she could gain employment in a senior and sensitive nursing role where she would be entrusted with the responsibility of caring for newborn babies.\n\nShe went to incredible lengths to manipulate her way into positions that demand integrity and honesty, yet showed none.\n\n\"Not only did she betray the trust of her employers and colleagues, but her actions put the lives of vulnerable patients at significant risk.\n\n\"Working with investigators at the NHS Local Counter Fraud Authority, the prosecution was able to piece together a large amount of evidence and present it to a jury who saw through her lies and found her guilty.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Fraudster nurse who swindled £51k from NHS ordered to pay back just £278"
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