A FRAUDSTER who faked a disability to claim nearly £500,000 compensation was caught out after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show.
Patricia Rogers was handed £492,141 in damages from NFU Mutual after one of its policyholders crashed into a car she was travelling in.
The 25-year-old claimed she was unable to walk without a stick or crutches.
But she was exposed as a fraud after she was seen walking, standing and running across the stage on The Jeremy Kyle Show in 2017 and 2018.
Rogers was also captured on CCTV comfortably walking her two dogs unaided for more than 40 minutes without a walking stick.
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She has now handed a 12 month sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay £500 compensation after pleading guilty to fraud by false representation.
Sheffield Crown Court heard Rogers made the claim following the road traffic collision in 2014.
She said the crash had caused a back condition that severely disrupted her every day life and left her unable to walk without a stick.
But after noting inconsistencies in her medical report, NFU Mutual gathered surveillance footage to catch the crook out.
The first video shows Rogers walking with her stick to a medical assessment on April 26, 2021.
Later that day, further footage shows the fraudster walking the dogs unaided for an extended period of time.
The case was referred to the City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) by NFU Mutual in August 2021.
During an interview, Rogers claimed she was able to walk without the stick as she was holding her dog's lead.
When her appearance on The Jeremy Kyle Show was pointed out, she said she was able to walk because she was so angry it distracted her from the pain.
Detective Constable Carley Parodi from the City of London Police's IFED said: "Rogers took advantage of a genuine car accident and, for almost a decade, kept up the pretence that it had a substantial effect on her life.
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"There was a huge difference between Rogers' ability to carry out her day-to-day activities in the surveillance footage and the serious impact of the accident as she described during her medical appointments.
"It was astounding that she told medical professionals she could not walk unaided, but then appeared on national television doing just that."
Richard Turnell, claims specialist at NFU Mutual, said: "By exaggerating and inflating the extent of her injuries and losses, Patricia Rogers sought to fraudulently claim money in the sum of up to at least half a million pounds at the expense of NFU Mutual's members.
"Over a period of almost a decade, Rogers attempted to mislead medical experts and investigators and even purchased props to support her deception - but she was observed on several occasions walking and running unaided."
