A fraudster who conned more than five thousand pounds out of the Westcountry Ambulance Service after lying his way into a job has been jailed.
37 year old Andrew Spencer, formerly of Station Road in Copplestone, wrote himself a false reference praising his honesty to help get an administrator's job at the Exeter based amblance centre.
In fact he'd just been sacked from Flybe for theft.
Once in the ambulance job, he forged his line manager's signature to claim nearly five thousand pounds in overtime payments, and used a fuel card to buy petrol for his own car.
After he was found out he tried to delay the court proceedings by falsifying a letter from a hospital saying his baby son was ill - but sharp-eyed staff noticed that a key medical term was mis-spelt.
He's admitted fraud and perverting the course of justice, and been jailed for two and a half years
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