A West Coast woman who used her pregnancy as an excuse for not attending community work has been sent to prison for a month.
Toni-Lea Bower was warned in the Greymouth District Court by Judge David Saunders last month that there was a mother-child unit at Christchurch Women's Prison, and she would be going there if she did not complete a community work order.
Judge Saunders was dubious about Bower's claim that she was too ill to go to the Greymouth detention centre, suggesting the Probation Service put a tracking device on her.
"If you had a GPS on her I think that you'd find her out and about," he told the Probation staff.
Remanding Bower for a month, the judge then advised her to "knuckle down".