Nurse in Forgery Case Is Set Free; Qualification Faked

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Byline: SOPHIE DOUGHTY

A NURSE jailed after getting a job based on qualifications forged by her husband has been freed on appeal.

Susan Kelly started working at a Newcastle NHS walkin centre in Byker, after claiming she had a degree in health studies and a teaching qualification.

But an internal investigation revealed although she was a qualified nurse, she had dropped out of her degree and never did the teaching qualification.

Kelly, 45, was locked up for eight months after admitting fraud, while her forger husband, Mark Darren Kelly, got a suspended prison sentence, in May. But now, judges at London's Court of Appeal have suspended her sentence …