A bitter ex phoned the hospital his former girlfriend is employed by and made a number of false allegations about her workplace behaviour, sparking an employment investigation.
Stephen Robert Burns, 47, made the anonymous call to Te Whatu Ora Taranaki, formerly the Taranaki District Health Board, last month, asking to speak to the head of the public health nurses.
Once the right person was on the phone, he asked if his phone number could be identified, Police prosecutor John Simes told New Plymouth District Court on Thursday.
Burns then lodged numerous false allegations about his ex-partner's "inappropriate" workplace behaviour and requested that she be sacked.
But his slurs must have got to Burns, because three days later he phoned the person he made the claims to and retracted the allegations.