A German insurance agent who cut off his own finger and
thumb to claim £1.2million in compensation has been found guilty of fraud after
judges heard experts say what happened to him was no accident.
A court in Norderstedt, near Hamburg, gave Ralf-Werner
Dehmer, 50, a 22-month suspended sentence when he was found guilty of trying to
defraud his insurers.
Judges heard how Dehmer took out three seperate insurance
policies - each one with a special clause covering hand and finger wounds -
shortly before the 'accident' in February 2010.
He was rushed to hospital from his home that month with the
thumb and forefinger of his left hand missing. 'I tripped over my two dogs and
fell into a circular saw,' he said. But police and insurance company officials
smelled a rat.
One report commissioned by an insurance fraud specialist
said it was 'particularly astonishing' that the rest of his hand wasn't
mangled.
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