The police discovered the ruse after the man was spotted on bumper cars and visiting Legoland…
A man has been sentenced to jail for pretending to be in a coma for two years to avoid charges for fraud.
Alan Knight from Wales was in hospital for ten weeks and managed to hoodwink everyone, including doctors, into thinking he was in a coma.
After pictures emerged from him playing on bumper cars (who can resist, they’re just so damn fun), police arrested Knight and charged him with perverting the course of justice.
According to the Guardian, he will serve 24 months on top of the four and a half years he was already supposed to be serving.
His wife has also been charged and convicted and will face a 10 month prison sentence for her role in the sleeping beauty scam.
Knight was originally charged with fraud after stealing £40,000 from an elderly neighbour who suffers from dementia.
We can’t believe that he managed to fool so many people just by pretending to be asleep.
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