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ISSUE 017
IssueB #150
Friday 20th October
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£240M TUMMY ACHE By Jack Troughton FAKE holiday sickness claims have cost the travel industry a massive £240 million as the government launches an investigation to help find a cure. Experts are being asked to submit evidence following a 500% rise in claims from 2013 to 2016 with Spain and all-inclusive breaks at the centre of the “epidemic” of the scandal. And as the government vows to get tough on the plague of false claims, frequently involving invented gastric illnesses, the first succesful prosecution has seen two
The Merseyside couple pleaded guilty to fraud after falsely claiming against Thomas Cook scamsters jailed in the UK. Greedy Paul Roberts and partner Deborah Briton were jailed at Liverpool Crown Court over bogus sickness claims. they had stood to pocket £20,000 from Thomas Cook over trips to Mallorca in 2015 and 2016. However, the holiday company bit back with a private prosecution
and shamed the Wallasey couple who had attempted to win an easy fortune maintaining the trips with two children were ruined by episodes of diarrohea and vomiting - yet on social media Briton gushed about everyone enjoying the time of their lives...with no mention of any malady. Continued page 2.
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