When she was eventually identified, the opinion of the Garda Síochána was divided; some maintained that she had not committed a crime as she had not actually claimed anything had been done to her and so needed mental health treatment, whereas others wanted her charged for wasting police time.
[7] In September 2014, Azzopardi walked into a health centre in Calgary, Canada, claiming her name was Aurora Hepburn and that she was the victim of a sexual assault and abduction.
In June 2017, she was charged with "dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception, for the education, counselling, food, accommodation and electronics she was given while posing as Harper".
[11] During the trial, it was revealed following multiple assessments that she had been diagnosed by Australian forensic psychiatrist Jacqueline Rakov as suffering borderline personality disorder and a rare phenomenon called pseudologia fantastica, which manifests itself in compulsive lying, internally motivated by her fantasies to recreate a happy childhood narrative.
[1][7][12] Between August and October 2023, after serving a sentence in New South Wales, she claimed to be a 17 year old Belgian victim of domestic violence named Hattie Leigh.
[15] In 2023, Azzopardi was the subject of Con Girl, a four-part Australian true crime docuseries that premiered on the Seven Network on 17 September 2023 and released on Paramount+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 22 February 2023.