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A woman motivated by "malice and spite" carried out a lengthy vendetta against a former friend, spawning fake documents to win tribunal hearings, simply because she did not get what she wanted from him.
The extent of Ōtorohanga mother Sally-Kae French's deceit, which involved her drawing in other associates to give false evidence in court hearings, was heard in the Hamilton District Court this week.
Her actions included faking documents submitted to the Dispute and Tenancy Tribunals and producing falsified emails from the Whakatāne District Council, SPCA and Taranaki Rape Survivors' Trust.
Meanwhile, the victim, nine years on, has been left wondering what he did wrong when "all I was doing was trying to help her".
French denies any wrongdoing, with Judge Kim Saunders noting in sending
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