A boss of an insurance firm claimed she had a daughter who was hurt in the Manchester Arena bomb attack so she could make claims for a payout.<\/p>\n
Susan Pain, of Kirkby, Merseyside, made 30 other fake medical claims between 2010 and 2017, totalling \u00a3140,000.<\/p>\n
They included a \u00a36,860 claim for a non-existent son’s skiing accident.<\/p>\n
Pain, 51, admitted two counts of fraud at a previous hearing and was jailed for two years at Liverpool Crown Court earlier.<\/p>\n
Judge Alan Conrad QC said: “All right-minded people would be shocked you would seek to use a tragedy that shook the nation as the basis for a fraudulent claim.”<\/p>\n
City of London Police said Pain had no children, but made claims related to children she invented.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Pain, a director of Money Medical Management, used her inside knowledge of the industry to make fraudulent claims.<\/p>\n
Police said she had also made claims for jury service and maternity leave and forged medical and court documents to substantiate them.<\/p>\n
Det Con Ant Andrews, from City of London Police, said Pain “exploited the tragic terror attack” to make a financial gain.<\/p>\n
The CPS said the fraud came to light when Pain pretended she was a dentist and claimed her “daughter Sophie” had had two major operations after sustaining serious injuries in the Arena attack in May 2017.<\/p>\n
AXA Insurance – underwriter of the policies – could not trace a victim with her daughter’s name and discovered discrepancies with Pain’s previous claims, said the CPS.<\/p>\n
Carolyn Scott from AXA Insurance said: “Pain took advantage of a position of trust to deceive her employer and defraud AXA.<\/p>\n
“She used details of extremely upsetting events… to make fraudulent claims for her own personal gain.”<\/p>\n
Henry Pepper, from the CPS, said it had applied to the court under the Proceeds of Crime Act to recover the money Pain stole.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"