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British man who faked car death for insurance fraud goes to jail
Sep 30, 2011, 14:30 GMT
London - A British man who faked his own death in a car crash in Honduras in an attempted life insurance fraud was Friday sentenced to six years imprisonment.
The court in Canterbury, in the southern county of Kent, heard that 66-year-old Anthony McErlean impersonated his wife to claim that he died after being struck by a lorry in Honduras in 2009.
He was also alleged to have invented a witness who he claimed had travelled with him to take rural wildlife photographs and produced a witness statement which alleged that farm workers in Honduras had taken care of his body.
Police in Kent were alerted by the Insurance Fraud Bureau. McErlean was arrested before receiving a penny of the 520,000 pounds (808,000 dollars) he had claimed.
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