A MOTHER involved in a custody battle has been jailed for a year after convincing her daughter and a friend to falsify the results of a hair drug test she was required to submit to the Family Court.
Belinda Anne Heard, 47, admitted to fabricating evidence with intent to mislead a court after the scheme was uncovered by Western Australia's corruption watchdog.
The Corruption and Crime Commission accused Heard of submitting the false hair strand drug analysis as part of a custody battle over her 10-year-old son.
Perth's District Court was told Heard was worried the test would show she had recently used marijuana, which might impact on her ability to retain custody of her son.
She recruited her adult daughter Sophie Anne Blakemore to provide a hair sample and asked her friend Rebecca Olson, 37, to take it to her workplace at PathWest to be certified.
The hair and the test was sent to South Australia to be completed and then sent to the Family Court, but the scheme unravelled when Heard's ex-partner discovered PathWest did not routinely do drug tests on hair samples.
In sentencing the trio, Judge Michael Bowden said the offence struck at the heart of justice.
"Everybody is entitled to rely on tests being honestly conducted," Mr Bowden said.
Olson, who was subsequently sacked by PathWest, was sentenced to 12 months jail, suspended for 18 months.
Blakemore, 24, was fined $5000, with the judge accepting she had initially declined to help her mother and felt "compelled" to assist even though she knew her actions were wrong.
Heard will be eligible for parole in six months.
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