A man has been hit with a £10k bill after trying to sue a Welsh council for a "pothole fall". He claimed to be in "ten out of ten" pain as the result of a fall caused by a pothole in a road near his home.
However a court found he was "fundamentally dishonest" after he tried to sue Flintshire Council over the fall which happened in February 2021. Mike Farron has now been left with an eye-watering £10,000 bill to cover the council's legal costs for fighting the claim.
An investigation into the alleged incident revealed that he had given differing accounts about the fall in various documents relating to the injury claim. Farron claimed that his accident happened at 6pm but when he was examined by a medical expert, he told them the fall had happened at 10am, NorthWalesLive reports.
