Woman’s distress over Tasmanian Liberal candidate Adam Brooks’s alleged fake identity

A high-profile Tasmanian Liberal candidate has been accused of tricking a love interest into believing he was a man named Terry who worked as an engineer and lived in Melbourne.

In reality, the man was Adam Brooks, a former member of the Tasmanian Parliament who resigned after the Integrity Commission found he misled former premier Will Hodgman about the true nature of his involvement with one of his businesses while serving as mining minister.

The north-west multi-millionaire is running for the