A man who faked a coma
and successfully avoided fraud charges for two years has been slapped with
additional jail time, along with his wife, for their effort to try to con the
courts, to the “extreme.” The residents of Sketty,
located just outside of Swansea, Wales, admitted to perverting the course of
justice and have now been sentenced by Judge Huw Davies.
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'Quadriplegic'
conman admits faking illness to avoid justice after stealing £40,000
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Forty-eight-year-old
Alan Knight was arrested 2011 for stealing more than US$60,000 (£41,000) from
his elderly neighbor’s bank account. In order to avoid charges the man claimed
to be suffering from debilitating illnesses including quadriplegia, seizures
and was slipping into comas.
RT based on WalesOnline filing reports:
Helping
her husband to avoid court, his wife Helen checked him into a hospital for 10
weeks, claiming that he had been suffering from seizures. Numerous tests were
carried out but they all concluded he had nothing physically wrong with him.
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ELABORATE RUSE: Alan Knight
and his wife Helen.
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The
complicated con scheme was brought to light by a police investigation which
produced a record of his health, such as walking and driving, captured on
surveillance-camera footage. In 2014, the con man was sentenced to four years
in prison for forgery, fraud and theft.
On
Friday, Swansea Crown Court handed out an additional sentence postulating that
the 48-year-old would serve another 14 months on top of his current prison
term. Judge Davies also jailed Helen for 10 months.
Appearing
via videolink from prison, Knight was told by the judge that he and his wife
had both demonstrated an “extreme” example of intent to pervert the course of
justice, which resulted in “significant delay in bringing the offender to
justice.”
“All in all your behavior
was unscrupulous and selfish,” Davies told the convict, stressing their plot
was well calculated.
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