A builder who tried to claim £500k saying he had injured himself at work was ordered to repay £13,000 and a ‘six-figure sum’ in costs - after surveillance showed him walking, shopping and carrying his daughter on his shoulders. Perry Scott, 45, had made insurance claims for two small falls from a window-height scaffolding platform and a ladder.
He claimed the accidents had left him unable to work and in so much back pain that he was '15% of the person he used to be.' Scott told medical experts that after the accidents he spent his days in bed or on the sofa and was no longer able to take his children to the park.
But surveillance photographs later showed him walking, shopping and carrying his daughter on his shoulders. Witnesses also gave evidence of one incident where Scott had helped to carry a large metal girder.
