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Kingswinford Man Who Stole Identity to Pose as Nurse Jailed
Guramatunhu earned an estimated £172,920 by working at six nursing homes under a stolen identity between 2015 and 2019, police said.
- On Tuesday 2 December, Ashton Guramatunhu was sentenced to 40 months in prison at Liverpool Crown Court after pleading guilty to one count of fraud by false representation.
- In late 2014 Ashton Guramatunhu registered with a Warrington nursing agency using Christmas Musaruwa's identity, then worked at six nursing homes between Friday 1 January 2015 and Friday 5 April 2019.
- Guramatunhu completed around 80 shifts at Chesterholme in Hexham and earned £172,920.94 t, receiving wages of £145,052 during this period.
- Guramatunhu, of Middlepark Road in Dudley, was stopped after returning via Heathrow Airport in February 2020 and was sentenced to 40 months by Liverpool Crown Court, Det Con Naomi Sargent said.
- Regulatory referrals from the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Disclosure and Barring Service alerted Christmas Musaruwa, the genuine registered nurse, to the fraud scheme.
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Fraudster who faked being a nurse for FOUR YEARS and earned nearly £200K is jailed - The Mirror
Ashton Guramatunhu, 46, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by false representation after four years of putting "lives of innocent patients at risk" after lying about his identity
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