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Woman Serves Time for Sister
By Reuters
Published: 07/17/2002

A woman pretending to be her older sister spent 10 months in prison for her sibling's crimes before deciding she had had enough of life behind bars, German police say.
Prison officials realized they had been keeping the wrong woman behind lock and key when the 33-year-old impostor failed to return from a period of leave, police spokesman Georg Himbert said.
'Apparently she decided she was sick of it and didn't come back,' Himbert said.
He said police assumed the woman was sitting in for her 37-year-old sister, who had been sentenced to several years for multiple fraud offences, so that she could take care of her four children.
The voluntary inmate, who bears a striking resemblance to her sibling, used forged documents to enter the prison and could now face additional jail time for forgery.



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