<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n“Frankly I have never seen the like of it,” said a district court judge as he considered Nicola Sara Watts’ web of lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She claimed to be pregnant – and then the mother to a child she had fostered out – as well as making allegations by false email, Snapchat, and Facebook accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She produced a false birth certificate, sent false letters containing fake confessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She complained to the police 55 times that she was the one being harassed, after the break-up of a casual relationship. Those allegations were false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She used false online accounts to accuse the victim of being a drug user, computer hacker, and child abuser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now that all the deception has been sorted out with a long list of guilty pleas by the Christchurch woman, she has been sent to jail for three years four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has also been ordered to pay $4571 in reparations for the legal bills the victim had to pay because of all her lies and false allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice, making false statements, breaches of a protection order, and careless driving causing injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge Kellar noted that Watts had involved a real child by sending emails which alleged the victim was a child abuser. She also sent emails that alleged he was sabotaging her own career, and harassing her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She produced a false birth certificate to get a temporary protection order against the victim and his former wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a high level of premeditation, sophistication, and planning involved in the offending, said Judge Kellar. “There was a large number of false statements and fabrications of evidence over the course of a year. Frankly, I have never seen the like of it,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The offending had taken a very significant emotional toll on the victims, with the stress and and anxiety it caused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watts also admitted causing a collision with a cyclist at an intersection in Linwood. The rider broke both her arms and her bicycle – her main means of transport – was wrecked. She was disqualified from driving for nine months for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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