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Love is an extraordinary force and can lead to some people going to extraordinary lengths in order to make a fraudulent personal injury compensation claim.
If you don't believe me, consider the case of the Bonnie and Clyde of personal injury compensation claims.
This couple a 32-year-old man and his girlfriend were recently caught out when police, in a separate enquiry, raided their home and found plentiful evidence of their fraudulent scheme. Among the incriminating items found were documents relating to their personal injury compensation claim and, mostly crucially, a mobile telephone containing video footage of the "accident".
According to the no win, no fee claim they had lodged against Plymouth City Council, the woman of the couple had suffered a broken leg when a wall collapsed onto her. They were seeking damages totalling £100,000.
It can only be considered fortunate then that the altogether more sinister truth was revealed by the police-seized mobile telephone footage.
It turns out that the 32-year-old and readers should be informed that he weighs considerably more than 15 stone placed a brick on his girlfriend's leg before jumping on it. Not surprisingly, but nonetheless no less disturbingly, those who've seen the footage report hearing a "distinct snapping sound" at the crucial moment of impact.
OK, I believe that it is unlikely that their motives had anything to do with love after all, they had only been going out for two months but let us consider some worrying questions.
It is possible that the woman might have loved her boyfriend, but can he really have loved her?
Any reasonable person will surely answer "no". You would never knowingly hurt someone you love.
What of the woman? Was she a passive victim of love or did she stupidly collude in a senseless scam?
Self-sacrifice can sometimes be a moving and significant act of love, but sacrificing yourself to pain and brutality in the name of love is without doubt a bridge too far especially if the act is merely in aid of mutual material gain. Only the insane or the perverse would argue otherwise.
It seems that the more likely explanation for her part in the failed compensation claim scam was also solely material gain. Recently, in convicting the man of maliciously causing bodily harm with intent for his part in the fraud, a judge said that the woman was "lucky not to be in court herself."
The defence solicitor argued similarly, "The incident was taken on a mobile phone video. There is a victim in this case but she was a victim of her own making. A video clearly shows the act of violence and the cause of violence."
By all accounts, as they are now separated, the couple's ordeal has done nothing to strengthen their bond and the man is now awaiting sentencing, pending a psychiactric report. There are no reports as to whether his ex-girlfriend has sustained lasting injury.
One can only speculate, but if it did turn out that the man's girlfriend was only a passive victim in a cruel act of sadism and materialism, she may yet be entitled to make a personal injury compensation claim through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
However, if it turns out that the woman was, as the judge seemed to suggest, just acting out of love or desire for material gain, the experience will leave her with nothing but a broken heart and a broken leg.
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