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Footballer jailed for two weeks for fraudulent personal injury claim
26 year old Matthew Hughes has been jailed for two weeks for attempting to fraudulently make a personal injury claim for £10,000 worth of damages from Caerphilly County Council. He claimed that he injured his knee after falling down a pothole outside his house in Pontlottyn near Caerphilly. Investigators later discovered that he played football on the same day that he claimed to have fallen and injured his knee during the match. Evidence found against him came in the form of a photograph showing him kneeling on his ‘bad’ knee before the match.
Hughes decided to take the council to court to claim compensation for his knee injury. He claimed that the knee injury prevented him from playing his favourite sport, football. Two of his friends supported his claim in statements made when he tried to pursue personal injury compensation 18 months after the injury he sustained in 2001. Team sheets covering the seasons since his injury show that he played a total of 29 matches when he claimed that he was too badly injured to play.
Hughes was jailed for contempt of court for lying under oath. He was attempting to make a personal injury claim against the council and is thought to be the first person to be jailed for such a case.
In addition to the stint in jail Hughes will have to endure the costs of his fraudulent personal injury claim. The court heard that Hughes’s criminal compensation claim will cost him a total of £33,000 including overall council costs covering the proceedings and all other associated prosecution costs.
Hughes denied the allegation of contempt of court.
See previous news story ‘Suspected bogus claimants go to Court’.
