Alexandra Chopra, 34, pleads guilty after lying to prison staff to call accused murderer Simon Jones in custody

Prison authorities have caught a woman contacting her partner behind bars just months after the man was accused of murdering her mother.

A woman who lied to prison authorities in order to contact her partner behind bars has faced court after police caught onto her scheme.

Alexandra Chopra pleaded guilty to one charge of personalisation – falsely representing herself as a person real or fictitious in Warwick Magistrates Court on Wednesday, October 18.

The court heard the 34-year-old was “desperate to speak to her partner” who was remanded in custody, with contact cut off, defence lawyer Sarah Campbell said.

Alexandra Chopra outside Warwick Magistrates Court on October 18, 2023

Simon Jones, the man accused of murdering Crows Nest woman Krishna Chopra, was held in custody after his arrest in March 2022, but has since been released on bail.

Police allege Mr Jones murdered Ms Chopra, his 61-year-old mother-in-law, after she was discovered dead inside her home in January 2022.

He has not been required to enter in any pleas.

61-year-old Krishna Chopra was found dead in her Park Rd, Crows Next, home on Monday, January 31, 2022.

On August 18, 2022, Chopra lied to prison authorities by telling them she was the sister of Mr Jones in order to contact the man in custody, and gave them her own number.

Using that phone number, Chopra communicated with the man over the course of August 18 and 19 despite there being a contact prohibition in place.

Telephone records later confirmed this, as phone calls from the woman were reviewed.

Facebook message screenshots showed Chopra messaged another party related to Mr Jones “if you speak to (the man), you need to tell him to warn me what name he puts my number under”.

Alexandra Chopra plead guilty to one charge of impersonation Warwick Magistrates Court on October 18, 2023

Magistrate Virginia Sturgess noted the woman did not have any prior criminal history, but acknowledged there was a “need” to speak to the man.

“Clearly there was a no contact order in place, and you have gone to some degree of subterfuge to subvert this, it was planned and premeditated,” Ms Sturgess said.

“While you may get away with it, they do check these things and they will unravel it fairly quickly it may seem.

“You can’t hide these things for very long.”

Chopra was fined $600.

No conviction was recorded.