Seven jailed for scam after ‘perjury on an industrial scale’

WHEN the police told Steve Evans that they were taking no further action against a gang of fraudulent lying cheats, he might have been tempted to give up the fight to bring them to justice.

ABUSIVE Elaine Walker swears at Penman outside court and (right) Steve Evans Motorists who needed replacement vehicles following a road accident would contact their insurance company, who asked Accident Exchange to arrange the supply of hire cars. But insurers claimed that Accident Exchange was overcharging, using evidence provided by Autofocus to show that cheaper equivalent replacement vehicles were available. Autofocus got paid around £1,000 a time for going to court to claim under oath that their cheaper quotes were correct, when in fact they’d been made up. Around 30,000 civil court cases were affected by this “systematic, endemic fabrication of evidence” and Accident Exchange almost collapsed after being repeatedly underpaid by insurers.