A PE teacher has been banned from teaching after she carried out an insurance scam in an attempt to cash in on £50,000. Dipti Patel reported a "contrived burglary" to her insurance company in an effort to make an "entirely fraudulent" claim.
Patel, who had been teaching at Manchester Academy, in Moss Side, at the time was convicted at St Albans Crown Court in September 2020. She was handed a nine-month suspended prison sentence and was ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work and 10 days of rehabilitation activity.
She pleaded guilty to the crime, as she did not know of the contrived burglary. She said her role in the fraud was "exaggerating the claim", which she regretted, reports The MEN.
