Hanna Dickinson, 28, was sentenced to four months in prison in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to making a false document.
Dickinson’s manager had no idea that a reference with her name on it was used in a Magistrates Court plea on February 26 last year. The fake reference was used in the court plea after Dickinson was caught engaging in identity theft to get a car loan. She nodded in agreement as her lawyer Felicity Fox explained she was working with infants of other inmates in prison and had voluntarily undergone isolation to work with infants during Covid times.Dickinson is serving a sentence of 12 months prison for falsely telling Centrelink she had cancer and claiming over $100,000 through the disability support pension.