A takeaway supply driver who claimed he had been bitten by a household’s canine has been hit with a £5,000 invoice after his lies had been caught on CCTV.
Sean Dore, 37, was captured on movie as Labrador Marley bounded as much as him together with his tail wagging as he arrived with a takeaway. However Dore had claimed the dog had broken his automotive and his arm on the farmhouse close to Bodelva in Cornwall in July 2021.
Dore, of Trewoon, St Austell, offered Marley’s house owners with a quote for £185 for scratches on his automotive to be repaired and filed a declare for harm value as much as £3,000. But Marley’s house owners’ home insurer AXA was suspicious when CCTV confirmed Marley with its tail wagging, enthusiastically greeting the supply driver.
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Medical examinations additionally discovered no signal of the “deep scratches” Mr Dore stated the canine had inflicted. Mr Dore tried to say that the video footage had been “doctored”.
But Deputy District Judge Healey sitting at Plymouth County Court dismissed his case as “basically dishonest”. He ordered Mr Dore to pay Marley’s house owners’ authorized prices value £4,788.90. Law agency Clyde & Co was instructed by AXA and performed the investigation into Mr Dore’s declare.
Damian Rourke, accomplice at Clyde & Co, stated: “Mr Dore underestimated each Marley’s house owners and the facility of surveillance applied sciences. Living in a distant space, Marley’s house owners had had CCTV put in to observe access to their driveway.
“But it wasn’t simply the footage that helped our investigators. “Other features of Mr Dore’s declare didn’t add up together with vanishing puncture marks, his failure to hunt medical consideration and a false declare he’d known as the NHS 111 cellphone quantity, all hallmarks of a dishonest insurance coverage declare.”
In their proof to the court docket, Marley’s house owners described their household pet as ‘an active, lively and friendly dog, typical of the Labrador breed’. They stated Marley had no propensity to chunk and had been beneath their management always throughout Mr Dore’s go to.
The listening to took place at Plymouth County Court on Friday, October 13.
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