A nurse who lied about her qualifications has been ordered to repay just £278 of the £51,000 she stole from the NHS.
Tanya 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.
The 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.
Nasir even claimed she was shot while serving as a Major in the British Army in Afghanistan, but this was found to be a lie.
However, Nasir's military career ended before it even began after she failed a basic fitness test.
She 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.
During 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.
Band 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.
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Despite 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.
Now, 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.
If she does not pay the £278, she will serve a month in prison.
She had initially denied fraud but was found guilty of all nine charges and was jailed for five years in July 2024.
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Cardiff Crown Court heard how Nasir did not turn up to her hearing
| WIKIMEDIA COMMONSFollowing her conviction Nasir was handed a striking off order at a nursing fitness to practise committee hearing on May 23 last year.
However, she didn't turn up to her hearing.
Judge Richard Kember told the court: "There was a risk for a catastrophic outcome for patients and staff.
"In my view, this went far beyond an acceptable level of talking yourself up for an application or embellishing proper experience."
Speaking 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.
She went to incredible lengths to manipulate her way into positions that demand integrity and honesty, yet showed none.
"Not only did she betray the trust of her employers and colleagues, but her actions put the lives of vulnerable patients at significant risk.
"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."