A fraudster tried to con more than £75,000 from insurance companies by claiming he had missed several flights from Manchester Airport, a court has heard. Joshua Moorcroft used the identities of people he knew to make the bogus travel insurance claim, including forging a police letter to claim he had been involved in a car crash which made him miss a flight.
The 27-year-old, from Liverpool, made 15 claims with six different companies for missed or cancelled travel using excuses such as injury or Covid-19 disruption. It started in October 2019 when he took out a multi-trip worldwide travel insurance police with Aviva and within nine days submitted a claim that he had missed a flight from Manchester to New York. Moorcroft claimed he had been in a taxi which broke down due to an exploded tyre.
Two months later he alleged that he missed a flight from Manchester to Qatar as he'd been involved in a crash on his way to the airport. To back up this claim, he sent a screenshot of an email which was supposedly from a police officer who attended the scene.
