By Staff Reporter
A woman from London has been sentenced after attempting to defraud her insurer through a fraudulent life insurance claim worth £397,153.
Thuile Bhebhe, 51, reported that her husband had died in Zimbabwe in August 2016, submitting false documents to her insurer, Aviva, in order to substantiate her claim.
Discrepancies in the paperwork submitted by Mrs Bhebhe raised the insurance company’s suspicions, leading them to carry out further enquiries into the case.
Simple checks quickly revealed that her husband was alive and well, and in fact working his shift as a nurse at a London hospital on the day he was alleged to have died thousands of miles away.
Woman sentenced for fraudulent life insurance claim
Two years imprisonment suspended for two years
A London woman has been sentenced for making a fraudulent life insurance claim on her husband’s life insurance policy
Thuile Bhebhe, 51, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment - suspended for two years - as well as 100 hours unpaid work and a 25-day rehabilitation activity requirement for the fraudulent claim. Bhebhe.
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