Taxi Driver Online

Liverpool Daily Echo

February 26, 2008, Tuesday
1ST Edition

Man's 60,000 pounds taxi fraud

A PSYCHIATRIC nursing assistant with an aversion to public transport claimed almost 60,000 pounds in taxi fares from the state.

Liverpool crown court heard John Jones suffered panic attacks and was entitled to take cabs to and from work.

But he conned pounds 33,223 out of the Access to Work scheme by massively exaggerating the number of taxis he took.

For four years he submitted bogus taxi receipts and forged a colleague's signature on claim forms.

The court heard Jones suffers from claustrophobia and agoraphobia and claimed to have panic attacks when he used public transport.

The judge was told the 46-year-old began working as a psychiatric nursing assistant in August 2001 for Merseycare NHS Trust based at Rathbone Hospital in Wavertree.

Kevin Slack, prosecuting, said twice-married Jones alleged he was working seven days a week, though he never worked more than five.

In January 2005 he started working at the Ashworth high security hospital in Maghull, by now only working three days.

Jones, of Wortley Road, Fazakerley, admitted 32 offences of false accounting and had 24 similar offences taken into consideration totalling pounds 59,000.

Judge David Swift adjourned sentence on Jones until next month.
____________________________

Why is it that when folks have a good scam going do they get a tad greedy.

Everyone knows the only folks mug enough to work seven days a week do so in a taxi/PH.

_________________
IDFIMH

Wonder if the next thing will be receipt printers in these cabs?

CC

_________________
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

WE GOT THEM HERE...PEOPLE STILL SAY WRITE ME A TICKET FOR ..BLAH BLAH AMOUNT

_________________
FORUMS ARE A GOOD PLACE TO LET OFF STEAM ! DONT TAKE LIFE TO SERIOUSLY ..

Are they compulsory?

_________________

http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

Who would have thought a scouser would do something like that?

If the tax men had their way they would be.

Methinks it's a case of watch this space.

_________________
IDFIMH

We had a discussion on receipt meters several years ago and I believe they are compulsory but Mt GBC will confirm that.

Regards

JD

_________________
Copyright notice © The contents of this post are copyright of JD and are not to be reproduced outside of TDO without written permission.