TAKING work home with you could land you in prison, as a judge from Zamora has just found out.

She is facing two years behind bars for having taken case files to her house, a court reveals.

Around 15 cases in total, which started between 1991 and 2001 – mainly for drugs, traffic offences and robbery with violence – were shown on the court records as having been studied and handed over for trial between 1994 and 2005.

But this was not the case, leading the accused, identified as M.L.P.V., to hide them in her wardrobe in the hope that nobody would find out.

The prosecution service says her intention was to ‘hide the delays’ accumulated in handling the cases, and to ‘avoid repercussions such as getting into trouble and disciplinary action’.

She was originally facing a year and a half in jail for unlawful handling of documents and four-and-a-half years for forging official papers, which was reportedly carried out by a civil servant working under her.

But these were reduced to six months and eighteen months respectively, since the prosecution has taken into account allegations that the accused has a drink problem.