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Moment Range Rover deliberately drives into forklift truck in £750k ‘crash-for-cash’ scam
Nurse Nicola Bartlett, 50, was one of more than 150 people in Britain's biggest ever 'crash for cash' insurance racket
THIS is the moment a Range Rover is deliberately driven into a forklift truck in a £750,000 "crash for cash" scam.
The staged crash was just one of dozens as part of the scheme - with a nurse who swindled more than £16,000 in the fraud today struck off for life.
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Nicola Bartlett, 50, claimed another driver had ploughed into her car - writing off the vehicle and leaving her with serious injuries.
But the shameless nurse, who was working at a hospital A&E department at the time, was caught out when police started to investigate the dodgy garage that had written off the car.
She was even caught treating her dad in hospital for injuries from another bogus crash in Britain's biggest ever "crash for cash" scam.
The case came after a huge investigation by Gwent Police that probed Easifix Garage in Newport.
The garage fraudsters helped stage 28 fraudulent crashes to collect pay-outs totalling £750,000 between 2009 and 2011.
They were ultimately caught out by their own CCTV cameras showing a Land Rover being deliberately driven into a forklift truck.
In the footage, the Range Rover can be seen being driven into the truck several times before being inspected by the fraudsters.
FAMILY-RUN SCAM
The family-run garage business netted £2million by conspiring with a web of friends and relatives to swindle the insurance industry out of cash.
Family members helped stage fake car crashes themselves and for others in order to make bogus compensation claims.
More than 87 people were charged over the scheme, with more than 60 years of prison sentences handed out.
Bartlett was one of more than 150 people in the "crash for cash" insurance racket.
A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel released an order stopping Bartlett from working as a nurse for life.
Panel Chair Robert Barnwell said: "Mrs Bartlett’s actions were significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse, and are fundamentally incompatible with Mrs Bartlett remaining on the register.
"The panel was of the view that the circumstances in this particular case demonstrate that Mrs Bartlett’s actions were serious and to allow her to continue practising would undermine public confidence in the profession and in the NMC as a regulatory body."
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She had previously pleaded: "I possess a vast range of knowledge, skills and many positive qualities to offer the nursing profession."
Bartlett had been working at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Hengoed, near Caerphilly, South Wales. She was jailed for one year at Cardiff Crown Court in 2018.
She had already been dismissed for gross misconduct from Aneurin Bevan Health Board in August 2016.
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