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| Author: | StuartW [ Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Fraudulent Yorks driver has to repay £42k insurance claim |
Fraudulent taxi driver given three months to pay £42k https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/ ... s-pay-42k/ A TAXI driver who kept working, unofficially, despite receiving £42,000 in insurance, must pay that sum in a crime proceeds confiscation. Rodney Bell received the overall pay out after claiming he was unable to work due to injuries suffered in a road accident, in 2007. But Durham Crown Court was told council enforcement officers discovered Bell was operating an unlicensed taxi in Richmondshire. A joint inquiry between the district council and fraud specialists from the City of London Police led to court proceedings in Durham, last October. He pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud and received a two-year prison term, suspended for two years, at a subsequent sentencing hearing, on November 2. The, now, 53-year-old defendant, of Gayle Lane, Hawes, was also made subject of a three-month, electronically-monitored 9pm to 7am home curfew, and had to attend 30 rehabilitation activity days with the Probation Service. He returned to court for a crime proceeds hearing, on Friday, when it was agreed his benefit from the crime was £42,310. Peter Sabiston said his available assets were assessed at £194,700, mostly made up of equity in his home, after the mortgage, plus £1,700 savings in a bank account. Recorder Craig Hassall QC, therefore, made a confiscation order for £42,310 to be paid within three months or the defendant will be at risk of a nine-month prison sentence in default of payment. The recorder told Bell, however, if he is unable to pay the sum in three months his solicitors could apply to the magistrates’ court for an extension of up to a further three months. Ismael Uddin, for Bell, said he has applied for a re-mortgage in the hope that he will not have to sell his home. But Recorder Hassall told him that on the expiry of the three-months, or six-months if an extension is granted, if payment of the £42,310 has still not been made, Bell may have to serve the nine-month sentence and the Crown can seek an enforcement recovery sale of the house from “under” the defendant. |
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| Author: | StuartW [ Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fraudulent Yorks driver has to repay £42k insurance clai |
Quote: Peter Sabiston said his available assets were assessed at £194,700, mostly made up of equity in his home, after the mortgage, plus £1,700 savings in a bank account. So unlikely to end up going hungry, then  But might have gotten away with the insurance fraud if he hadn't been running an unlicensed taxi service 
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| Author: | edders23 [ Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fraudulent Yorks driver has to repay £42k insurance clai |
well he certainly wouldn't have got away with it had he been a licensed one  Another one who sees accidents as opportunities to get money for nothing. It will be interesting to see if he can re-mortgage his house after all the primary consideration is income which he hasn't got  Homeless within 6 months ? |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Mon Jun 07, 2021 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fraudulent Yorks driver has to repay £42k insurance clai |
No way the insurance company would have known about his unlicensed work/conviction unless someone who knows him well told on him. But £42,000 isn't a lot if it's to cover for you never working again? |
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