Woman used nurses’ emails to fake references, court hears

The court was told Ms Nasir, unbeknown to the person concerned, also accessed the email account of another nurse to provide a reference for herself while applying for the role of senior nurse at Hillingdon Hospital in 2015.

However, Ms Nasir insisted to investigators that person had been “happy to put me down as referee”.

In addition, the court heard she failed to declare her criminal record when applying for the Hillingdon job, Ms Nasir having been convicted of four counts of benefit fraud in October 2010.

She was fined and given a community-based work order but claimed to have been the victim of an administrative misunderstanding about council tax payments.

Ms Nasir has also claimed to have taught at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, was an air traffic controller at Luton Airport as part of a work placement to do with her physics studies.

When challenged about this by an investigator she replied: “I have the essential qualifications for the jobs.”

Her other claims include having served with the Army army in locations such as Syria and Haiti, where she claimed she was “solely responsible for the covert and safe extraction of VIP military personnel from danger zones”.

But earlier the jury heard that searches of military records had revealed no trace of Ms Nasir ever having served in the army or as a reserve.

The trial continues.