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Crash driver cleared of insurance fraud
A driver accused of making a fraudulent insurance claim after a minor road traffic accident has been cleared by a jury.
Rashid Shaikh, 29, submitted a joint 20,000 claim with two other men after a car ran into the back of their black Audi on a roundabout.
The prosecution claimed that the real driver was a man called Mohammed Patel, who has raked in at least 46,000 profit by staging 92 collisions in three years.
The accident occurred at the Eden Point roundabout on the A34 at Cheadle on October 25 2005.
Shaikh, of Victoria Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, denied one count of conspiracy to defraud between January 1 2005 and June 10 2008.
He was cleared by a jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday after a four-day trial.
The Audi's owner, Iqbal Khan, and his son Ershad Khan, both of Argo Street, Bolton, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud and will be sentenced, alongside Mohammed Patel, at a later date.
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