A personal trainer who admitted presenting a fake medical certificate to a court in a bid to get his licence back has been put on a 15-month Community Corrections Order, and spared jail. Jason Nielsen, 38, walked from the Geelong County Court yesterday after he was sentenced on one charge of perverting the course of justice, which carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail. Judge Susan Cohen told the court she spared Nielsen jail due to his guilty plea “at the earliest possible opportunity”. The court heard Nielsen, a personal trainer for nine years, presented a fake medical certificate to the Geelong Magistrates’ Court on August 30 last year indicating he had passed a drug screen facilitated by a Ryrie St doctor on August 18.
