Fraudster given ten months suspended jail sentence

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A con-artist has been convicted of two counts of fraud after staging two separate accidents.

A fraudster who made a bogus personal injury claim worth £10,000 has received a 10 month prison sentence suspended for two years at Bradford Crown Court.

In 2012, 36-year-old Waheed Iqbal of Hollings Road in Bradford, pretended to slip on a wet bakery bag in Lidl in Bradford and reported to the store's insurer, AIG, that he had hurt his head and the left side of his back, leg and ankle.

However, Lidl's CCTV footage made the insurer suspicious and the incident was reported to the City of London

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