Student Arrested For Using Fake ‘O’ Results To Look For A Lower 6 Place

19-year-old Pertunia Faiti was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment yesterday after presenting fake ‘O' Level results to look for an advanced level place at Mazowe High.

Faiti was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment by Concession Magistrate Nyasha Machiriori for fraud.

Machiriori, however, suspended the sentence on condition that Faiti performs 175 hours of community service at Pearson primary school, Mazowe.

Prosecutor Kumbirai Nyamvura told the court that on February 8 Faiti approached the deputy head of Mazowe high School  Susan Mack (56) and produced a fake result slip from her phone which she claimed was from a local college.

Faiti sent her fake results to Mack on WhatsApp while looking for a lower six place.

Upon receiving the results the deputy head saw some anomalies on the center number of the slip and the naming of the subjects was shortened.

She verified with ZIMSEC and discovered that Faiti failed her O level, she then filed a police report leading to her arrest