Worried about crime? Never fear, the NHS Counter Fraud Service has swooped on a criminal network operating at the very heart of the health service.
The vice crackdown last week saw its fourth conviction, a foreign national who fraudulently obtained £20,000 of taxpayers’ money.
On what did this miscreant spend his ill gotten gains? Guns? Heroin? No, he put it towards his nursing training.
His case follows that of a fellow Zimbabwean who used a false passport to gain an NHS nursing bursary. Did the fiendish fraudster snatch the money and disappear into the night?
Not exactly. After her nursing training she lived a glamorous criminal existence working with drug addicts at Holloway Prison, where she was later arrested before being thrown in jail for a year.
Not quite The Wire, is it?
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