The Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand will decide the professional future of a Northland physiotherapist found guilty on three charges relating to defrauding the Accident Compensation Corporation.
Guilty verdicts against Skye Renes were returned by a jury in the Whangārei District Court on two charges of obtaining by deception and one of dishonestly using a document for pecuniary advantage.
Not guilty verdicts were returned on 20 charges of obtaining by deception while there was hung jury on six charges.
The court will allocate a callover date when a date for a re-trial is expected to be set on the six undetermined charges.
After a three-week trial, the jury retired about 3.30pm on Thursday last week and delivered their verdicts about 3.15pm on Monday.A spokeswoman for the Physiotherapy Board of NZ said it was awaiting a formal notification of the verdicts from the court registrar before considering what action to take against Renes.