Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CHRIST CHURCH, New Zealand, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A man suspected of pretending to be a female nurse at a New Zealand hospital has surrendered to police. While police did not release the identity of the suspect, an earlier story in The Press, a Christ Church-area newspaper, said that the bogus nurse, who told a patient she was named Tess Chapman, was believed to be Toruri Chapman. Chapman received a prison sentence in 2002 for stealing a uniform, handcuffs, pepper spray and several police cars and responding to emergencies as a female officer, Ana Williams. Advertisement Investigators say there is no evidence that the nurse tried to give any medical care. Lia Poumaka said that Nurse Chapman visited her mother's room in Christchurch Hospital. Poumaka described the nurse as nice, saying that she claimed to be the daughter of New Zealand rugby great Bryan Williams, who is of Samoan descent, and told them she had married a "palangi" or man of European descent and was about to have a baby. The nurse was "a very large woman" whose pregnancy did not show, Poumaka said.
