Uni employee offered forged degrees for sexual favours

Recruited volunteers for a “pain management study”
Used them to fulfil his ‘spanking fetish’

Former University Registrar Karl Woodgett has been given a nine month suspended sentence and been ordered to do two hundred hours community service for forging university degree certificates, which he offered to women in return for sexual favours.
Having volunteered for a ‘pain management study’, Elsie Neh and Mbone Kemba were led to a hotel room, where Mr Woodget filmed himself spanking and caning them, after which he offered them forged degree certificates as payment. Following this incident, Mr Woodgett developed plans to sell fake certificates for up to £1,000.
He logged into the University of Bath network on a colleague’s account, and added names to a database of people due to be awarded degrees, and then obtained blank certificates by telling colleagues he was reviewing the degree-printing process. Using these, Mr Woodgett made degrees for his partner Delphine Kah’s mother, stepfather and sisters. He was fired when the University became aware of the forgeries.
Sentencing, Judge David Ticehurst said ''This was a clear breach of trust... It goes to the root of what universities are about and if they have administrators such as you who are prepared to falsify documents then the whole point of that purpose is undermined.”