A former law student from Dewsbury has been sentenced for pretending to trip over a crate of orange juice cartons in a supermarket and claim for her injuries.
The case is believed to be the first private prosecution in the UK by an insurance company against a so-called ‘slip-and-trip’ fraudster.
The deliberate and premeditated plan, which involved at least two other women, was aimed at obtaining money from a supermarket in Bradford. Farida Ashraf waited for eight months after her alleged ‘accident’ before making her claim in the hope that CCTV footage would have been erased.
Ashraf, who studied law at Bradford College, received a suspended jail sentence of 21 months at Bradford Crown Court. She will also be electronically tagged and placed under a curfew.
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