Insurance employee jailed for £129,000 fraud

Prison

The man was jailed yesterday for abusing his position at three different insurance companies to fund trips to Disneyland.

A man has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for defrauding a combined £129,000 from three insurance firms that he worked for and lying to their clients about fictitious medical treatment costs that they were liable to pay.

Yesterday (28 August 2018) Iain Wishlade, 52, of Wetherel Road, Burton-on-Trent, was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court.

The sentencing follows an investigation by City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED).

IFED declined to name the three

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