Woman bags jail sentence after deliberately sawing off her hand to claim £925,000 in insurance scam

22-year-old Julija Adlesic from Ljubljana in Slovenia has bagged a three year jail sentence after deliberately sawing off her hand to claim a £925,000 insurance payout.

Adlesic reportedly hatched the macabre plot with her boyfriend and arrived the hospital when they knew the hand could not be reattached. Adlesic told hospital authorities that she injured herself while sawing branches.

Woman bags jail sentence after deliberately sawing off her hand to claim ?925,000 in insurance scam

Just days before the incident in early 2019, police investigations found Adlesic's partner, Sebastien Abramov searched online for information on artificial hands work. This was used as evidence that the amputation was part of an insurance scam plot.

Their plan was foiled after police recovered the appendage and surgeons reattached it. The 22-year-old lady however protested her innocence during her trial, saying she would never have deliberately chopped off her hand .

She said;

"No one wants to be crippled.
"My youth has been destroyed. I lost my hand at the age of 20.
"Only I know how it happened."

Woman bags jail sentence after deliberately sawing off her hand to claim ?925,000 in insurance scam

She was subsequently found guilty of attempted insurance fraud by a court in the city. Sentencing her to three years, Judge Marjeta Dvornik said;

"We believe the sentences are fair and appropriate, and will serve their purpose."

Her boyfriend Abramov was sentenced to three years in prison while his dad received a one-year suspended sentence.

Comments

Photos of the 22-year-old woman mauled to death by a lion in South Africa

-year-old Megan van der Zwan was mauled to death by a lioness in a game reserve near Hammanskraal, South Africa on February, 27. The former student at the University of Pretoria, had accompanied her friend to conduct an interview for an assignment at the Kevin Richardson’s Wildlife Sanctuary, located at the Welgedacht Private Game Reserve outside Pretoria. Police spokesperson Constable Connie Mohanedi said the lioness attacked the pair as they were approaching their car to leave. Mohanedi said an inquest docket was opened, but would not give much information “as the investigation is at a “sensitive stage”. According to reports Megan and her friend were visiting the game reserve belonging to "lion whisperer" Kevin Richardson. They wanted to interview the camp manager. Kevin says they were taking pictures outside the camp when the attack occurred. He says he and one of his experienced colleagues were talking the lions one of their regular weekly walks throu...

Nigerian national accused of stabbing wheelchair-bound woman 116 times in the US

A Nigerian man stabbed a 62-year-old wheelchair-bound woman 116 times, leaving her partially disembowelled. Kehinde Afolayan, 31, allegedly murdered Deborah Lynch, 62, at her home in South Milwaukee last Friday. He was arrested and charged on Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide and use of a dangerous weapon, in connection with the Friday attack. If convicted of the felony charge, he faces up to life in prison. A witness told police how he peered through a window of the apartment on Clarke Avenue, South Milwaukee, after being alerted by his sister to a commotion inside. Peering through the window, he saw Afolayan stab Deborah Lynch as she sat in her wheelchair. The witness identified Afolayan as “someone whom, in the past month, he had see...

Abuja-based businessman beaten to death by unknown assailants in Enugu

An Abuja-based businessman was beaten to death by unknown assailants in Enugu. The deceased, Chinedu Nzegwu popularly known as Obroshoo by friends, was attacked by the assailants few days before his return to Abuja. They reportedly hit him with a stick on the head leaving him for dead. Late Nzegwu, a Pure and Industrial Chemistry graduate of the University of Port Harcourt, is a former student of Dennis Memorial Grammar School DMGS, Onitsha, Anambra State. His friends and family members have taken to Facebook to mourn his tragic death. One of them Nwachi Viktor, wrote: "Murdered in cold blood in Enugu by fellow ndi igbo. Another young and hardworking man from Onitsha.He was my junior in Dennis Memorial Grammar school Onitsha. Trying to understand why they had to beat him to death,he was never a thief and came from a good home. Rest in peace Chinedu Nzegwu. No one is safe in Nigeria!"

Startech Safety And Security News Blog

Search This Blog