A fraudster claimed he was
a quadriplegic and faked being in a vegetative state for two years.
Alan Knight, 47, of Swansea,
conned his elderly neighbour out of £40,000 and claimed he was unable to move
from the neck down in a bid to avoid being punished for the crime.
He was caught out when
doctors watching his hospital room spotted him eating, wiping his face and even
writing.
He was also caught on CCTV
pushing a shopping trolley around a Tesco store and driving.
The father-of-three’s wife,
Helen, kept up the act by being pictured ‘caring’ for her ‘comatose’ husband.
Det Con Paul Harry, from South
Wales Police, said: ‘In my entire career this is the most calculated, long-term
deception of a vulnerable, elderly neighbour I have ever seen.’
Source:Metro News UK
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