Former Royal Navy rating Rhiannon Mackay, aged 29, earned more than £23,000 as an NHS administrator after falsely claiming she had two A-levels. While working as a capital project administrator for the Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Mackay applied for other jobs – sending off another 11 CVs which falsely claimed she had two A-levels.
Plymouth Magistrates' Court was told that she also forged a reference from her boyfriend, a chief petty officer in the Navy, and a Naval Discharge Certificate.
The court heard that Mackay started work in August 2008, but was challenged about her performance at work and in October last year admitted having lied about her qualifications. Mackay admitted forging documents on her computer.
Jodie Baker, for Mackay, said: "After leaving the Navy she had applied for several jobs but been unsuccessful. She started to embellish her CV with two A-levels. She had no idea that this misrepresentation could land her in jail." Because she was not busy enough at work she kept applying for other jobs, using the CV which claimed she had two A-levels. District judge Paul Farmer jailed her for 24 weeks.
Mackay, under her maiden name of Leigh, was sentenced to 12 months in jail in December for three bomb hoaxes. She falsely claimed there were explosives on HMS Northumberland and at HMS Drake, which caused the ship and part of the dockyard to be evacuated.
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