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Bob
7th January 2006, 01:27
A Hertfordshire police officer is facing the prospect of a jail sentence over his attempts to scam money out of an insurance company.

Richard Wilmot-Day “told lie after lie” as he attempted to con Churchill Insurance into paying for £1,000 of bogus repairs to his BMW. Wilmot-Day claimed he had bought and fitted parts for his motorbike after it had been involved in an accident. He fought the matter all the way to a county court, despite a fraud investigator from Churchill suggesting in writing that the claim was a work of fiction.

A jury found him guilty of using a false instrument and acts tending or intended to pervert the course of justice – fraud, in common English.