After serving four months of home detention, a Whanganui woman has decided "she didn't want to put her family through the stress" and would rather go to prison.
Natasha Nuku was convicted of shoplifting over $1000 worth of items from a sports shop in Feilding and giving police a fake name when she was arrested in March last year.
Nuku, 25, appeared in the Whanganui District Court last week to be resentenced.
Defence lawyer Anna Brosnahan said Nuku had decided the address at which she was serving her home detention at was not suitable.
"She doesn't want to put pressure on the family and cause them stress. One of them is having a baby."